Jacqueline Kent

And also...

It's something that happened quite a long time ago.

So I was able, I hate the word, but I've been able to process it.

And I think that has to happen.

I really do.

Otherwise, it's just sitting down.

And as Bruce Dorr, it's one of my favourite Bruce Dorr quotations, he said, pain alone said nothing great.

And I think that's absolutely true.

You have to do something with it.

Sue Miller knows how to do that.

And I thought that was really interesting.

I think that's absolutely true and it really is.

It's a lot of work writing about something as life-changing as that and it's not easy and I thought she did a terrific job, I really do.

Basically, I think I liked the truthfulness of the relationship between the two main characters.

I also liked the way that she went into both their voices.

I mean, she did understand both of them.

I liked the background very much.

And a lot of the interesting thing about Ferranti, I always think, is the fact that even though the milieu may not be something that you know, you don't know about,

Naples or haven't lived there and haven't grown up there.

But it's that universality of the things that young girls and young women in particular have in common, sort of flashes of jealousy, fellow feeling, loyalty, all the feelings that go together with a deep friendship and also the business of having to cope with