The authors of Lobsters and new middle grade book Never Evers on what it’s like writing together (and how they do it), why year 9 is a crazy time, and where they rank in the ‘cool’ league. Plus, read the first chapter of Never Evers here!
Was the story of Never Evers based on anybody? Are the main characters anything like you Lucy (Mouse?) or you Tom (Jack?) when you were at school?
Lucy: I definitely don’t have Mouse’s grace or ballet skills! I knew a girl at university who had been filtered out of ballet school. She told me that all the girls who are moving up to the next year get a new coloured leotard, and that she didn’t get one, and that really stuck with me. Connie and Keira are based on two girls who were in my form; they are like chalk and cheese and I liked the idea of having a friendship like that in the book.
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