As a writer, that's your dream – when an idea sparks another idea – and it's then your job to chase after them. "I read the material she had left and, although there wasn't a lot of it, it was extremely potent," he says. However Siobhan's Mistress Yew planted a seed in Ness's fertile imagination. She was a really clever, mischievous writer and she would have told a story." "I was very worried about writing a tribute or a memorial, mainly because that's not what Siobhan would have done. "My initial instinct was to decline the project, because I have a real worry about writing stories for the wrong reasons," he says. "It was so typical of her to be thinking about other people even as she was dying," says Denise. Instead, Siobhan wanted to channel the proceeds from her writing into a trust that would bring literature to young people in deprived circumstances. I'm not leaving you any money.' I just burst out laughing. After being told there was no further treatment, "Siobhan said: 'I've got something I have to tell you.
"Siobhan had a generous spirit and a big heart, and she was scatty and funny and fantastically intelligent," she says. Her third and fourth novels – Bog Child (which won the prestigious Carnegie Medal) and Solace of the Road – were published posthumously.ĭowd's sister Denise, a retired district nurse, had accompanied her to appointments with her oncologist. In May 2007, with A Swift Pure Cry and The London Eye Mystery already published, Waterstones named her as one of 25 "Authors of the Future". She had already been diagnosed with breast cancer when she started writing the first of her four novels in 2004 at the age of 44.
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