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**Deseassaugs** · 03-07-2009, 12:05 AM

Thank you for the correction. You are right. The first two titles were published, to no fanfare, by Hutchinson UK, and it was Harriet Said, published by her long-standing publisher Duckworth's, that was her breakout novel. The Hutchinson titles were out of print for several years, in fact.

The novelty was in the set-up of the story, coming off the Mary Bell case in Britain. But it's the later titles that really earned her serious recognition. Graham Greene chose The Bottle Factory Outing as his book of the year for the Observer, I believe, and that made a world of difference.

03-07-2009, 12:05 AM	#16
Deseassaugs Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 457 Senior Member	Thank you for the correction. You are right. The first two titles were published, to no fanfare, by Hutchinson UK, and it was Harriet Said, published by her long-standing publisher Duckworth's, that was her breakout novel. The Hutchinson titles were out of print for several years, in fact. The novelty was in the set-up of the story, coming off the Mary Bell case in Britain. But it's the later titles that really earned her serious recognition. Graham Greene chose The Bottle Factory Outing as his book of the year for the Observer, I believe, and that made a world of difference.
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