_Click here: BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Desai's inheritance of success_ (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6258971.stm) "In the end it somehow felt that writing for group approval and producing something every 30 days produced sanitised writing," says Desai. "Writing a novel doesn't fit that kind of profile. It's a messy process. So I started writing much like my mother." Has anyone read this? It's now on my must-read-yesterday list. I hadn't read her first book, either. Julie Krueger