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I am finding my current novel very hard going, I confess. It is creeping forward sentence by sentence. I have written about 45k so far and another 30-40k to go, depending on how it all pans out. So it was very cheering (and timely) to receive some review cuttings from Simon & Schuster with comments about Sacrifice. Young reviewers writing in the magazine Teen Titles said variously: "If a famous person had personally come to see me, I would have told them to go away until I had finished!" and "From the moment I picked up this book, Sarah Singleton's words carried me off on a thrilling journey..." and "I really can't think of a single negative thing about this book and I am definitely going to try the next in the series!"

Reviewer Natasha Narayan in The Book Magazine says: "At first bite this yarn... is a bit Da Vinci Code. Thankfully Sarah Singleton's imagination starts where Dan Brown's leaves off, plus she can tell a more satisfying story... set in the 1890's it has the panache of a gothic Victorian romance."
Oh I like that - just wish I had a fraction of Dan Brown's sales? And his film deal? Ah well. Nonetheless I am very thankful for these cheering reviews. I shall return to writing the new one with a little more enthusiam perhaps.