The Missing author profile C L Taylor interview
C L Taylor discusses The Missing themes and her craft in a detailed e interview. She explains choosing a teen son for the protagonist to explore secrets and the challenges of portraying multiple dissociative amnesia episodes while keeping the plot propulsive. She situates unreliable narrators in a long tradition and notes readers seek relatable mothers wives and friends in psychological thrillers. Taylor previews The Fear and outlines planning steps for her sixth novel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Taylor
Cally Taylor
Claire
Billy
Paula Hawkins
Fiona Barton
Gillian Flynn
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Bridget Jones
Helen Fielding
Bridget
Mike Hughes
France
The Missing by C L B Taylor review summary
British author C L B Taylor crafts a suspenseful read about the disappearance of Billy Wilkinson told by his mother Claire who slips into dissociative amnesia. The novel sustains doubt and misdirection but slows mid‑section with a long, twisty 470 pages and uneven pacing.
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Cally Taylor
C.L. B Taylor
Taylor
Billy Wilkinson
Billy
Claire
Paula Hawkins
Fiona Barton
Sadness is a White Bird bold debut on love and war
Israeli American Moriel Rothman Zecher delivers a coming of age novel about Yonatan a young IDF enlistee who forms a complex bond with Palestinian siblings Laith and Nimreen. The alternating chapters reveal his struggle to balance two worlds amid checkpoints memory and a fateful 2006 day that reshapes all their lives.
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Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Palestine
Jonathan
Yonatan
Israel
United States
Laith
Nimreen
Prairie Lights hosts writers Olivia Clare and James Han Mattson reading
Iowa Writers' Workshop graduates Olivia Clare and James Han Mattson read from new fiction at Prairie Lights Books, Town City, at 7 p.m. Friday. Clare reads from Disasters in the First World and The 26-Hour Day. Mattson reads from The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves.
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Lla Clare
James Han
Mattson
Prairie Lights Books
Dubuque St
Iowa
Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Olivia Clare
James Han Mattson
Town City
Clare
Sam Houston State University
Ricky Graves
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