"I chose somewhat more desperate times for my first novel: 1951, with the war scarcely over, where a young girl's search for her lost parents throws her into collaboration with a disillusioned soldier."
"British-Columbia in the mid-eighties, when an embarrasing sexual misadventure - about as petty as you could possibly get - starts 16-year old Sara of on the path to violence and degradation."
"Things aren't what they used to be? Not true. The changed world of 2035 still poses the same romantic dillemas to the young, as 16-year old Zorn finds in this, my second novel."
"The influence of the drug culture started being a problem in the sixties, but was so well established by the eighties that it could be examined in this best selling novel of teenage drug addiction."
"A favourite subdivision of the Lolita genre is that of two or more girls encouraging each other towards greater heights of outrageousness, as happens here with 11-year old Lisa and Celeste in the 80s."
"A trio of girls, fifteen-year olds, see how far they can push the envelope, again the eighties. All these women authors writing all this revelational stuff! What DID they get up to twenty years ago?"
"....one could try asking the younger end of the 30 bloggers/writers featured here in "Xangans," which I edited. Most of them are very young and blogging now. They'll probably answer."
"Ah, a male author, putting in his take on the Lolita syndrome with a situation that regularly hits the headlines: a romance between a schoolgirl and a teacher."
"And the last word goes to the ladies, with MacLean's working of a situation familiar to many teenagers: a growing girl's rebellion against the constraints imposed by a fundamentalist Christian family."
