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Rebecca Miller, who is married to the actor Daniel Day-Lewis and has already found success as a writer and director, is the best known of the chosen writers. Her book, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, has been selected along with The Outcast by Sadie Jones; No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay; East Of The Sun by Julia Gregson; Down River by John Hart; The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson; Addition by Toni Jordan and The Resurrectionist by James Bradley. Miller’s novel, which is to be made into a film starring Robin Wright Penn, Winona Ryder, Julianne Moore and Alan Arkin, is the story of an outwardly perfect wife who has just moved with her successful husband – 30 years her senior – to a retirement community where she is by the far the youngest person. As she begins to question who she has become, the book recounts her wild past and how her quest to find her identity changes her future. It received considerable praise on publication, with critics warming to Miller’s voice and the intelligence of her writing. Some, though, have claimed that parts of the novel are strained and overdramatic. Her fellow writer Joseph O’ Connor, however, described the work as "a beautifully layered and subtle novel of identity, with a wonderfully vivid sense of place and character". Miller is the first child of Arthur Miller’s marriage to the Austrian-born photographer Inge Morath. She married Daniel Day-Lewis in 1996 and the couple live a near-reclusive existence in Co Wicklow, close to Dublin, with their two sons, Ronan and Cashel.
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The daughter of the
playwright Arthur Miller is among eight emerging novelists who can
expect their debuts to become best-sellers after they were included on
Richard and Judy’s summer read list.