Your books are written in first person. Do you think they have more emotional impact beacause of that?

Jane Cable I think writing in the first person allows readers to live alongside the main character (or, in the case of The Faerie Tree, characters) and experience what they are going through, so yes, it does allow for more of an emotional impact.
The first person narrator also allows for greater suspense. I discovered this quite early on while writing The Cheesemaker's House because it was crucial to the plot that Alice didn't know what was going on in Owen's head. It can be a bit of a risk if readers don't relate to your narrator but in general I've found that they do.

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