In all of her writings, she has been most concerned about telling a story from a particular individual's perspective, as in Here No More, The Story of Ah-Qiao, Till Death Do Us Part, Minnie, and Passion and Love in Hong Kong. That was why she refers to novel writing as the act of creating a "private, inner world."
她向來關心的創作主題是「人」的自身，深刻地關懷及訴說一個人又一個人的故事；像是《流逝》、《阿蹺傳略》、《逐鹿中街》、《米尼》、《香港情和愛》等等，因此她替小說的命名是「心靈世界」。