![]() I was also secretly hoping that adult readers would enjoy them as well, and that the novels would transport them back to those first books that capture a reader's imagination and fire a love for literature. I was trying to offer a nod to all the books kids of my generation used to read, from the mysteries of Enid Blyton to the great nineteenth-century classic stories of intrigue and adventure from Dumas to Verne to Stevenson and beyond. ![]() When I wrote these books I was aiming to write the kind of novel I would have liked to read when I was twelve or thirteen years old. How young is young when it comes to reading is a tricky question, and one I've never been able to answer. ![]() ![]() The Watcher in the Shadows is the third of the novels I wrote for younger readers at the beginning of my career in the 1990s. ![]()
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