There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

The plot is described thus: "“A young boy in New York City Theo Decker miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Knopf 1992.  60-66.

She won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003.