The novels portray the citizens of Imperial India as enigmatic, romantic and powerful.

Her modernist novels portray the restricted and often tragic lives of women in contemporary Scotland.

The novel also portrays Morgan Wendell as a more reasonable and balanced man than what is depicted in the miniseries.

The novel also portrayed an almost 30-year-old man worried by the from now on known-pattern of his own life.

He notes that her novels portrayed a marriage based on love, rather than arranged by one's parents as dictated by tradition, as a happy one.

The novel does not portray any sexual activity.

Some romantic bishōjo video games and visual novels portray miko as attractive, prim girls.

However, his novels portray the gritty details of manual labour, about which he may claim to be knowledgeable.

His novels portrayed themes of ruthlessness and injustice in society.

The novels often powerfully portray the Christian drama of the struggles within the individual soul from the Catholic perspective.