Goodreads asked Jane Harrigan:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jane Harrigan I've always believed you should only write what you enjoy writing. I once had an agent (I parted company with her) and she told me if I wanted to be a successful fiction writer I should write a crime book like 'Girl on a Train'. It was the last thing I wanted to write and I stuck with my literary fiction and poetry. This meant it took me a long time to get published - I am only recently beginning to get my poetry published and have just signed a contract with a publisher for my first novel, 'The Unravelling' but it meant I never stopped enjoying my creative writing.

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