Girl in the Mirror was life-changing for author Rose Carlyle. Her second book makes her feel it wasn't a "fluke". That second book is No One Will Know , a "twisty, plot-driven" novel, she told RNZ's Nine to Noon .
It's about a wealthy couple who take in heroine Eve and her baby, raising the baby as their own while she's retained as nanny. The thriller delves into illegal adoption and the dubious actions of the wealthy. It was, she said, a "great feeling" to publish her second novel.
"Because you do feel like you fluked it the first time. And I think everyone struggles with the second novel, just as musicians struggle with the second album. "I really wanted to take the time to get this one right, and it also feels so great, the new thing about having a second novel is that I've got fans out there already waiting for me.
" The new novel came about when she first imagined a twist in the tale, she said. "I kept thinking, this would be such a great twist I've never seen it written before. I don't think anyone would guess it.
"And I didn't have a story for it to happen to. So, it took me a long time to get from there, because the twist happens in the middle to end of the book, to get from there to a full story." Next came her heroine Eve, she said.
"Even though I'm writing a twisty, plot-driven thriller, it was really important to me that the book have heart and be sort of grounded by this character, Eve, who starts off so vulnerable, but then discovers that she's pregnant and disc.
