Ask the Author: Andrew Hanson
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Andrew Hanson
By researching characters carefully, thinking about their choices whether that is food, clothing, music or politics, and generally planning as much as I can before I start to write.
Andrew Hanson
I wrote “Greenies” because of my sense of anger, bordering on hopelessness, at the lack of serious action to tackle the causes of climate change. Yet I wanted to write a novel which would be readable, compelling, and not didactic. Setting it in the near future, in the year 2030, seemed like a way of exploring possible climate impacts, yet in a world which a reader can still recognise as theirs. The disastrous flood of London, which takes place three years before the central narrative, is caused mainly by a spring tide combining with a storm surge, but rising sea levels will contribute to the danger of such an event.
Andrew Hanson
The idea for "Greenies" came partly from my own experiences of environmentalism, with Friends of the Earth and other groups. I was always too ill to become involved with direct action myself, so it was something that I had to observe from the sidelines.
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