Goodreads asked Robin Falvey:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Robin Falvey I knew I wanted to write a Young Adult novel, I just needed the character and setting. I'd been surfing at my local break in North Cornwall and was sitting in my van eating chips when I noticed some kids from the surf lifesaving club messing around in the river that empties out onto the beach.

I was a surf lifesaver for about 15 years and of course everyone says, 'write what you know'. So I grabbed an envelope and jotted down an idea about a kid who is from a messed up family, with dodgy mates and basically on the wrong track. He doesn't surf, but he's got a connection with the sea, but what, I thought, would happen to this kid if he was here now, and I gave him a surfboard?

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