I was aiming for a thriller book which is almost defined by its limitations in time and space. In addition to that, I wanted the entire book to be set in one, claustrophobic setting that you never escape from: an RV.
I don’t think that in itself was a huge challenge for me, because I first wrote A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder as a standalone, and each book has its own mystery that concludes by the end of the book, so I’ve had experience in wrapping up a complicated plot in 400 pages before.īut with Five Survive, I decided to set myself an additional challenge: I wanted to write a book that was set in just eight hours, the story unfolding in the same amount of time it takes to read the book. And after writing three very large and complicated, interconnected books about the same character, I think it was natural for me to steer towards a standalone, a very different kind of story that begins and ends in just one book. HJ: I knew that the A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series would end as a trilogy, bringing Pip’s story to a close with As Good As Dead. Why did you decide to write Five Survive as a standalone novel and was it a very different challenge to begin and end a story in a single book? Buried secrets are forced to light in the cramped, claustrophobic RV, and tensions within the group will reach deadly levels. A game of cat-and-mouse plays out as the group desperately tries to escape, and to figure out which one of them is the target. There is a sniper out there in the dark, shooting at them, and they are trapped. But when one of their tyres blows out on a remote, dirt road, the group soon realize this is no accident. A group of six friends is travelling across the states in an RV for Spring Break. Holly Jackson's book 'A Good Girl's Guide to Murder' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 26-09-2022.Can you tell us a bit more about the set-up of Five Survive?
įive Survive reached number four in the Sunday Times Children’s and YA Fiction chart, week commencing.
įive Survive reached number one in the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover Besteller list, week commencing. Buried secrets are forced to light and tensions within the group reach deadly levels. One of the group has a secret that the sniper is willing to kill for.Īs a game of cat-and-mouse plays out, the group desperately tries to get help. He’s watching them and he knows exactly who they are. And as the wheels are shot out, one by one, the friends realise that this is no accident. Until the RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere. ‘A blisteringly good standalone thriller.’Įighteen year old Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break.
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