Episode 92 - Rebecca Thornton: Part 2

This Writing Life

Part two of This Writing Life's conversation with Rebecca Thornton, about her debut novel The Exclusives, begins with a discussion of what perfection means to her characters. This is not something we know much about at This Writing Life. But anyway. Rebecca compares her feelings as a teenager to what perfection means to her today as a writer and mother. ----more----From here we reverse towards the evolution of The Exclusives itself, from romantic comedy to dark-hearted thriller. We plunge on to:

writing as a form of therapy withholding in narrative and content fronts, repression and fear - at school and in fiction judgment and teenage life how has school changed over the past two decades? the portrayal of mental illness in The Exclusives is This Writing Life asking too many questions? 'That's a bit terrifying': what Rebecca's husband thought of The Exclusives 'My life is over': teenage angst and teenage pressure #checkyourprivilege: is The Exclusives too exclusive? Mallory Towers etc: fictional models? Rebecca's early writing experiments (teen erotica) how does it feel (to write)? anxiety, paranoia, disaster, thrillers (and children)

Part 3 of 3 to follow.