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Congratulations!

Oh how fab. Well done. We know you’ll be brilliant. Xx

Big congratulations! Well deserved. I hope you have great fun with it. :clapping-hands: :clinking-glasses::cool:

Woohoo! That's awesome Rachel! Squee! :clinking-beer-mugs: :bottle-with-popping-cork:

I have won an Urban Writers scholarship to do their Six Month Novel writing online retreat. It runs from 10/3/25-7/9/25. The trouble is, now I have to do the work!! I proposed an eco/political thriller (so far from my comfort zone, I can't even...

I think Gillian McAllister wrote a book like that but it was the father who was accused of a crime. It's called The Evidence Against You.

Does The Book Thief count? They are kind of father and daughter and are doing something technically illegal yet morally imperative.

Not sure if it counts because the older figure is an aunt not a father, and the two lovers are cousins, but Therese Raquin is choc-full of passion and familial moral dilemma... and guilt and (arguably) retribution...

I'd be honoured to read it if you'd let me. email: caldecottrachel60@gmail.com

Only to exclusive readers... I dont know if it would be of any use to you. My model was Antigone. But I dont tell agents that.:rolleyes: These are exactly the themes I was writing about though. You're welcome to read it. I am still - and always...

But that isn't available to read, is it?

Strangely enough that is my Feckless.

I'm looking for books to read that have good examples of Father/daughter relationships, moral dilemmas; the boundaries between doing the right thing and doing the legal thing (not always the same). Stories that look at the parental dilemma when...

Agreed.

I have a mental picture of an isolated writer beavering away on their keyboard, being a god to their own creations, and forgetting entirely the world beyond. The manuscript/screenplay is a priority only for them. Dare I coin the phrase: Literary...