Nadia: Testament of the Ghost Girl

This story is true.
This book is about my novel Nadia.
I published this novel in the spring of 2015.
By this time, I had written three other crime thrillers. Nadia is my fourth and final one.
Nadia was first conceived when I was seventeen. The year was 1982 and I had just begun art school. Thirty-three years later, I would write it.
The story seemed to bear no relevance to my life at all. A playboy billionaire is involved in a horrific car crash, propelling his mystery passenger into a nightmare.
During the writing, I felt geared, prompted by a force. I had believed this to be routine writer’s itch. What I didn’t realise was that an undercurrent existed in this novel. This undercurrent was rendered invisible to the novel I believed I was writing.
The same thing has happened to all my novels.
A scene in Nadia would open my eyes. It was autumn 2016 and the life I had believed in would be destroyed.
Five years after beginning Nadia I am ready to analyse it. I have been through this process three times already with my previous novels. All have been harrowing and all have given up hard truths.
As this is a true story, I have included relevant diary entries. These inform upon the force that drives this novel as well as tell its own story.