Anne Fine's Blog - Posts Tagged "the-killjoy"

When my daughter was four, we went off to America for seven years because of my husband's job. By the time we came back, our stable, almost unchanging babysitting cooperative of other families with young children had been turned upside down. Divorces, remarriages, chaos. I became fascinated in the nature of passion - how people could suddenly choose to risk all the stability they'd created around themselves and those they loved, simply in order to feel fully emotionally alive again. Up until then, I'd been perfectly happy writing novels for older children, but this was clearly a subject to be explored at an adult level.

The book become darker and darker in the writing. I didn't realise how dark until the first review came in: 'a horror story which rings absolutely true'. But that is passion for you. It's dangerous in every way.

The Killjoy