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Dark Matter
Michelle Paver is an author who until recently was best known to younger readers. Last year she won the prestigious Guardian Prize for Children’s Fiction for her Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series but 2010 also saw her make a triumphant return to adult fiction with Dark Matter, a ghost story set in the Arctic.
Paver, who will discuss the book and the tradition of supernatural literary thrillers, at the Kingston Readers' Festival next week, says that she was not perturbed by the prospect of writing for adults again.
“I’m never terribly conscious of the audience I’m writing for,” she says. “I just focus on the voice and the language I need to use for a particular story. “What I was more concerned with was whether Dark Matter would be frightening enough and that can be really hard to tell.”
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