In the Holiday House.? How can Harvey deal with that? Clive explained a bit more to Lot of times in my life when I wished more was going on and I thought this would be an interesting fantasy to play with.'ДЄ soul-stealing vampire. Saying, вЂDonвЂ™t wish your life away, donвЂ™t wish your life away.вЂ™ But the story wasnвЂ™t based on anything except that there were a Thought, вЂOK, well how long is it to Christmas?вЂ™ I mean, youвЂ™re constantly saying that. Think, вЂOh, how long is it to Thanksgiving?вЂ™ (in America - in England it was Bonfire Night). Every kid does that - you finish your summer holidays and 'Even as a kid, I was aware that I lived from holiday to holiday. So, yeah, thereвЂ™s something of Harvey in me. I also wanted to give Harvey some of my imaginative energy.

Where I was brought up, and I wanted to reflect that in Harvey. Lot of reading, but even reading canвЂ™t take you away all the time, away from the grey reality of life in Liverpool in the вЂ™50s, which is So there was a lot of downtime, time where you were just waiting. Now, but as a kid I didnвЂ™t have those diversions. 'I think we, all of us, as children feel bored a lot of the time, waiting for adults to do whatever adults do. Shapes for the things that were running round my head.'

I think IвЂ™ve spent the years since being that 10 year old kid finding formats, finding 'Harvey Swick is very much the 10 year old that I was: a very angry little kid who had very strange dark imaginings that he He's a 10-year old boy who thinks a lot like Clive did at the age of 10!

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