I love books that have basis in fact and that was what drew me to this story. I'm not so keen on the title... 'I have nothing to say' in all honesty doesn't seem like an appropriate title for a book (I think it will repel rather than draw readers in) but the writing is solid and flows nicely. Be car... view book

I lived in Edinburgh for eight years and know the story of Maggie Dickson well (and spent many an evening in the Maggie Dickson pub at the grassmarket). You write well and I was thrilled to see this story made into a novel. I'm not going to go over all the things that I liked about the story, becaus... view book

Tightly written and incredibly atmospheric work here, Jane. I loved the opening with the tarot cards, and the loaded sentences like 'when I had a mother'. You obviously understand hooks and obviously understand believable characterisations and I was so happy to shelve this (again!) hoping that under... view book

The writing in this is both prose beautiful and yet slightly comic. You use vivid imagery and there is a wild imagination on display. I will say that the occasional line seems over written, but for the most part, this is readable and entertaining. I will carry on reading (have only managed three cha... view book

A nice beginning, a nice opener, but with one almighty problem... punctuation. You use apostrophes in the wrong places, your dialogue isn't correctly formatted and you don't break up your chapters into readable indents. You use exclamation marks as sentence endings when the sentence hasn't finished,... view book