![]() I think that's one of the nice themes of the book, actually, is that it's clearly a book that has a… It references overtly To Kill A Mocking Bird a few times and it clearly has similar… JENNIFER BYRNE: A few times?!. ![]() Here is a 13-year-old boy who's reading the novels of William Faulkner, which I think is pretty remarkable, actually. There's an awful lot of literary references. ![]() But the discovery of the body is… terrifying for Charlie, and… Charlie has to help Jasper deal with this body. ![]() But the book in itself is extremely funny, I think. There's a body but it's not as grim as it might sound, is it, Jason? OK, it's 1965 in a small mining town in WA, and Charlie Bucktin is visited one night by the town outcast - Jasper Jones. It really kind of took hold and almost wrote itself. I was really just along for the ride with this book, you know. ![]() It became so much more than I'd originally intended, and I'm so glad that it did. It's also a, you know, very tentative little love story as well - Charlie falls in love for the first time, very nervously and very badly. And instead, it became a book about coming of age but it also… addressed themes of, uh, the nature of friendship and the nature of towns' secrets and myths and traditions and how they're allowed to flourish. I set out to write an Australian gothic mystery novel, but it soon became so much more than that once the characters developed and the story unfurled for me. ![]()
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