How well do we really know the people we love?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: After years of working in film and TV, why tackle a novel?
I thought, Im going to write a book.
Just for me, just for my own sake.
What made you want to write a thriller?
Ive read Agatha Christie and P.D.
James and Dorothy Sayers, and I love Kate Atkinson.
Why are you drawn to thrillers?
Theres genocide, and brutality, and torture!
Everywhere you look, theres awful things all the time.
InJust Fall, a young couple go on the run… but not for the usual reasons.
We had gone down to Laguna, my husband and I, for this romantic weekend.
We were supposed to have cocktails and hotel sex and we were gonna reconnect, you know?
But it was a disaster.
So I scribbled down the scene, which ended up being the opening of the book.
Are you writing another novel?
Its called The Burial Society.
Writing keeps everyone around me safeI work it out on the page.
My husband jokes he sleeps with one eye open now.
