To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

The plot is described thus: "“A young boy in New York City Theo Decker miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Knopf 1992.  60-66.

She won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003.