![]() Jade, Bates and Samson, take risks to protect each other. ![]() This means trusting people, allowing herself to be cared for, caring for others. She is determined, though, to carry out h er granddaddy’s dying wish. Jade has just lost her granddaddy and is alone in the world. ![]() In my dystopian world (set in East Anglia) ‘Most of the groups who lived by the Great Sea were the dreg ends of families’. This is in order to give the characters ‘freedom’ to move around and make their own decisions. Writers of children’s books usually have the task of ‘getting rid ’ of the parents when they write a story. ![]() Jade, Bates and Sansom are three twelve years – olds who are struggling to survive in the Wetlands another flood threaten s and they must make their way to North-Hampton to seek refuge behind the dykes. The world has been devastated by rising waters and the survivors live in a fractured and cruel society. The story in my new novel THE DROWNING DAY takes place in the year 2052. ![]()
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