![]() ![]() Photograph: Josh Barratt/Netflixīehind Her Eyes has now sold almost 1m copies around the world, and the Netflix adaptation is set to propel sales further still. I would have hated that.”Ĭracks in their marriage … Tom Bateman and Eve Hewson. Everything had to have dual meaning, so that no one could say this character lied. “At first I thought it was going to be really easy to write, but it was quite hard. ![]() “I wanted it to hit all the beats of a regular thriller. She tried infusing her story with “flavour” – then, suddenly, she had the twist. A friend had died that week, and I was looking after someone’s dog, who I had to have put down. “She said, ‘Don’t worry, it doesn’t have to be brilliant.’ Which obviously means it has to be brilliant,’” Pinborough says. She went for a beer with an editor at HarperCollins, who told her she wasn’t being published right, and asked her to pitch a book. “I’d written, like, 20 books and never broken through.” It’s really dangerous to be envious of other people’s success, but I started to worry that maybe my shelf life was running out,” she says. She remembers sitting in a bar during the sci-fi convention Worldcon, “watching people, and seeing writers who had just got big deals. “But I couldn’t come up with anything original.” At that point, Pinborough had written a couple of dozen novels – a mix of horror, science fiction and fantasy – and won a handful of awards, but none had become bestsellers. I thought I’d quite fancy writing something like that,” she says. “I’d been reading a lot of books like Gone Girl, domestic noir and psychological thrillers, and I was really enjoying them.
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