Reading group questions for What She Saw


  1. What She Saw is written from two and later three points of view. What are your thoughts on multiple viewpoints?

  2. The novel is a psychological thriller but what you call a ‘slow burner’. Do you like this style or do you prefer your thrillers to have a faster pace from the start?

  3. Beth has an obsession with birds of prey. What do you think they stand for symbolically and metaphorically?

  4. What would you say are the main themes of What She Saw?

  5. How does the author foreshadow the secret that Leona is hiding?

  6. There are several twists in What She Saw. Did you see any of them coming?

  7. What She Saw is set in the Lake District. How important do think setting is to a novel?

  8. The love between a mother and her child is a major theme of the novel. How far would you go to keep your own family safe?

  9. Do you find the main characters likeable? Is this important?

  10. Do you feel that Leona/Ria made the right choices?

  11. How did What She Saw make you feel at the end of it?

  12. If What She Saw was made into a film, who could you imaging playing the parts of Leona, Beth and Scott?

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Reading group questions for We Were Sisters


  1. We Were Sisters is written from the point of view of Kelly as a child, as a teenager and as an adult. What are your thoughts on this?

  2. The novel is a psychological thriller but what you call a ‘slow burner’. Do you like this style or do you prefer your thrillers to have a faster pace from the start?

  3. Do you think the novel was plot or character driven?

  4. What would you say are the main themes of We Were Sisters?

  5. Who did you think wrote the letters and why?

  6. There are several twists in We Were Sisters. Did you see any of them coming?

  7. We Were Sisters is set in Brighton and the South Downs. How important do you think setting is to a novel?

  8. One of the themes of We Were Sisters is maternal bonding. How successful was the author in dealing with this topic?

  9. Did you find the main characters likeable? Is this important?

  10. Do you feel that Kelly made the right decision at the end of the novel?

  11. We Were Sisters in written from Kelly’s point of view. If you could hear the same story from another character’s point of view, who would it be?

  12. What feelings does the novel, We Were Sisters, evoke?

  13. If We Were Sisters was made into a film, who could you imaging playing the parts of Kelly, Freya and Mitch?

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