As her final Tennison book is released, acclaimed author Lynda La Plante reflects on a fond farewell to a beloved character portrayedon TV by Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect. Kerri-Ann Roper reports.
How does a character that’s spanned years of a writer’s glittering career get given a send off? If you’re acclaimed author Lynda La Plante, then that famous character doesn’t go quietly or without a fight. This month, our most famous female detective, Jane Tennison, is being sent on her Prime Suspect way, with La Plante’s final Tennison crime instalment, Whole Life Sentence.
“The misogynistic attitude towards her is unbelievable. It’s unremitting, it never stops. And she gets to a point to say, ‘I’m going to throw the towel in, I can’t do it’. But something in her says, I will fight you on every single level. And so in the last book, we see the fight commence…”. “What you see in the last book is it’s not actually the end, it’s the beginning, but you see, my God, that woman fought every inch of the way.
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