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b'The joy she experienced from reading in her childhood attracted her initially to the world of children\\u2019s fiction. She honed her writing skills first as a journalist and magazine editor, and later as an author of children\\u2019s books. There are 12 in all, penned under the name June Considine.

Fantasy, adventure, gritty realism, teen lives and loves\\u2026 eventually, as all young people do, the characters she created grew up. So she turned her attention to the domestic life of adults and the intimacy of family. Today, we\\u2019re going to step inside the pages of her novel, GUILTY, which has been recently released from Grand Central Publishing in hardback. From the shoreline of Broadmeadow Estuary, near the town of Dublin, Ireland, today\\u2019s guest is Laura Elliot.'