Chris Brookmyre

And it's almost as though the iterations of the story we've seen since were that version and they forgot about this version.

She's constantly surprising in that respect.

She is quite, as we said about Danny Weir, she's confident in times when you don't expect her to be.

But you feel that she's always vulnerable because she is slightly naive that she's going to stumble into...

emotionally dangerous territory such as the whole time you're thinking this guy's going to turn out to be a cad and she doesn't see that but as you say it subverts how you expect this tale to play out in some respects it subverts it in other ways it's exactly how you expect it to play out

Louise, what did you think?

I loved this book.

I hadn't read this before.

I have read Edith Wharton before, not for a while.

I guess summer is a season, isn't it?

And charity is ripe for this season.

And I think what surprised me, it feels like a fairy tale.

As you say, it's a story that we know and it plays out.

And yet every turn there's a different choice that could be made.

And we don't know if charity is making the right choice or not.

But I love the fabric of this world.

And I love the...

The expression of young female desire, because she is so turned on by this man.

She's so ready to be embraced by this man.

And we, as a reader and as a more experienced person, we're not a 17-year-old girl living in the middle of nowhere.