Quotes from Esther Freud

Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.

a discovery you make yourself is worth twenty thousand things that you are taught, even if it is a discovery that everyone else has made.

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

Occasionally I looked at Bea to see if she was running over those events like I was, the sound effects living their own life behind her eyes, but she gave nothing away.

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.

A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.