A SLOW FIRE BURNING

Paula Hawkins writes: A Slow Fire Burning starts with a brutal murder on a London canal boat. Laura, a likely suspect, is witnessed leaving the scene and for a while it looks like a straightforward case. But what I wanted to explore in this book is the way that n o tragedy happens in isolation: an accident in childhood can have ramifications a decade later/ trusting the wrong person at the wro ng time can derail a life completely. I am interested in the way we become the people we are: how we choose what to hold onto and ho w those t...[Read more]