We’ll get back to Question Time tomorrow but it’s Sunday, when we do #beginnings. Since there was recent discussion about my writing for kids, how about we do the start of DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE, book one in the ECHO FALLS TRILOGY? It came out the same year as my adult book OBLIVION and won the Agatha Award for best children’s mystery.

Ingrid Levin-Hill, three weeks past her thirteenth birthday, sat thinking in her orthodontist’s waiting room. You’re born cute. Babies are cute. Not hard to guess why – it’s so everyone will forgive them for being such a pain. You grow a little older, and people say, “What beautiful hair,” or “Get a load of those baby blues,” or something nice that keeps you thinking you’re still on the cuteness track. Then you hit twelve or thirteen and boom, they tell you everything needs fixing.