Pat Christensen asked Jacqueline Winspear:

With as popular as your series has been, and with as many books, as you write, do you ever worry that you're writing to meet your reader's expectations more than your own? If not, how do you avoid it?

Jacqueline Winspear If I was writing to readers' expectations, I would not have taken a break from the series following LEAVING EVERYTHING MOST LOVED. I write a story I want to write - frankly, the desires of the reader do not enter into the equation when I am writing. If I was a writer who wrote for a certain readership, I think I would be better off going into marketing! It would also be risky, as I have a very, very broad readership, not only in terms of country of origin, of cultural and educational background and age, but in literary taste, and also divided between men and women. As a writer I want to remain true to myself and to what I want to write - if I did anything other than that, it would actually be a disservice to the readers. Readers are intelligent and thoughtful - they don't want to be pandered to.

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