Advantages: A quick easy read. Would make a good television drama. Disadvantages: Implausible plot. Would make a good television drama.
Lynda La Plante is perhaps best known for her writing of powerful television dramas including Prime Suspect for which she won several awards. To date, she has also written some nine best-selling novels!
Although I have watched a few of the television dramas, I have never really been tempted by any of her novels. However, on my recent birthday I was given "Sleeping Cruelty" (La Plante's seventh novel ISBN-10: 0333736532 published on September 22nd ... ...anything new, I started to read . . .
The book opens with a rather disquieting prologue. A sinister flashback places a young nanny isolated with two strange children rumoured to have previously set fire to their home and their mother!! A few horrific scenes (including those of a somewhat sexual nature) later, the nanny is woken by a thudding of something being dragged across the roof - the children and their dead father! ""Nanny, will you help us ...
MAFARRIMOND 14.10.2007
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Advantages: Compelling start Disadvantages: Strong sexual content - some may be offended
Introduction
As a huge fan of Lynda La Plante's TV series, such as Prime Suspect and The Governor, I have also picked up a few of her books in the hope that they will be as good. Unfortunately, so far, I haven't been that impressed. A friend of mine who used to write for The Bill and Brookside says that this is quite normal - writers usually shine in one form of writing, but the skills don't automatically carry over. Having said that, the book is ... ...again, I have read worse. The author
Lynda La Plante began her career on the stage and worked with the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She then had TV parts in series such as The Sweeney and The Professionals. Frustrated that there were no good acting roles for women, she began to write TV scripts herself, the first to attract attention being The Widows. After this, she also began writing novels. She established La Plante Productions ...
sunmeilan 16.09.2005
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