I
dare say most of us, to more or lesser degree, have a dark side in our
nature. Probably, most of us too, have committed errors we are not
proud of, or downright ashamed about which, in some small or rather
significant way, influenced our life or changed it all together.
Maybe
some of you would have seen a fact based film (I haven't but would try
to seek it out), about two English teenage girls, best friends, one
helped the other to murder the latter's mother, and both had been
prosecuted and had severely paid for the crime. The 'accomplice' had
since remade her life and became a successful thriller writer,
pen-named Anne Perry.
She is here in Barcelona attending the 'BCNegra' - Barcelona Black-Week (dark and mysterious literature and novel, an annual convention of famous international crime writers). She graciously granted an interview with the media, under the strict condition that the 'mistake' of her youth must not be in anyway mentioned.
Reasonable
request I think. After 40 years rebuilding her life, 15 of which with
her past made internationally known and immortalized in a book and by a
film, she must have been punished enough, not just by law and generally
outcasted, as well as the aftermath she must have endured, but her own
shame and conscience, the ignorance and cruelty of youth.
A
great number of her novels are about London of the Victorian era. Her
latest novel is titled 'A reasonable loss', the 2nd book with the same
character, a waterway police agent of the Famous Themes, William Monk,
who must confront organised pederasty.
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