![]() ![]() ![]() Once the dual ideas of the boy who tunneled and the young girl as narrator gelled, it almost wrote itself-I had the cast, I had the setting, I just said ‘go.’” Accustomed to writing about edgy young adult characters, Sonya Hartnett says that identifying with a seven-year-old protagonist was a challenge at first. “I’d wanted to set a story in the Depression for some time, in an isolated community that was strongly supportive. “It just pulled itself together,” she says. The acclaimed author of several award-winning young adult novels-the first written when she was just thirteen-Australian native Sonya Hartnett says she wrote Thursday’s Child in a mere three months. Even I, who like to distance myself from my characters, felt protective of her.” ![]() “Harper is the reason you get sucked into the characters. “I chose to narrate the story through a child because people like children, they want to like them,” says Sonya Hartnett of Thursday’s Child, her brilliantly original coming-of-age story set during the Great Depression. ![]()
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