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UNDISCOVERED VOICES INTERVIEWS Sandy Horsley.I just wrote that scene in the fairground, like there's this girl with a hot dog, and I carried on free writing (because I'd paid for my Arvon course!), and suddenly had this brother called Andre. When I got the prompt, it was utter free writing. Whether to protect himself or, if he had it, would he hurt someone? So, lots of things came together. so I thought about mustard.Īlso, in London at that time, there were lots of young people involved in knife incidents, and I've always wondered what would make a really lovely young person change, and pick up a knife.

But also mustard, because I'd taken my daughter to Hyde Park Winter Wonderland and everything was so expensive, so at one point we got a hot dog and shared it between the two of us. All I could think of was those tokens that you get in fairgrounds. And on this particular course, the prompt that I pulled out of the hat was: 'He woke up dreaming of yellow'.

I had no anticipation that I'd be writing about a young man of sixteen-it did not cross my mind. Orangeboy By Patrice Lawrence Published 2 June 2016 Review copy from Books With Bite Thrilling, dangerous, compelling, mysterious and intriguing - delve into the curious question of Orangeboy for a fast and furious contemporary read. I'd gone on a writing course and I was going to write something completely different: it was a crime-writing course. I hear lots of conversations, and I spend a lot of time thinking What if? With Orangeboy, it was an accident.

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