hi welcome to watchmojo.com i’m your
host leila today i get the opportunity
to talk to prize-winning author meg
rosoff to talk about her career in
writing and a little bit about her
latest coming-of-age novel what I was
what’s I guess the love story in what I
was it’s quite an abstract love story in
a way I mean it’s about two boys one of
whom is at boarding school in England in
1962 the other of whom has kind of
slipped through the cracks of society
and lives by himself in a fisherman’s
hut something sort of happens between
them it’s in an attraction of opposites
it’s not necessarily sexual relationship
but there’s an incredibly strong
connection do you think that that these
are issues that teenagers are facing
today the more you talk about the edges
of things the better and a lot of stuff
a lot of life happens at the edges and
you know that the classic thing when I
was growing up was that you felt like a
freak because nobody else thought the
same way you did and that’s just rubbish
you know I mean no matter how kind of
weird and twisted you are you’re not
alone really maybe you want to tell us
where when you started thinking about
this idea for what I was and why were
you got inspired for it I read an
article in The Guardian in London about
guy who lived in my neighborhood in
North London and he had just died he in
his 60s he had been abandoned by his
mother when he was two or three years
old literally on the side of the road I
think and picked up at some point by
gypsies or travelers he’d spent time in
boys homes and he’d always lived on the
outside of society and he didn’t need to
know exactly how old he was didn’t know
what his birthday was never had a
national health number never had a
credit card obviously and I just found
it completely amazing that somebody you
know ten years older than I am could be
living at the same time I was living
and just have nothing that connected him
to the modern world and then you know it
sort of starts to you start out with an
idea like that and it starts to tie in
with all sorts of other ideas that
you’ve had you know about other things
and before you know you have a book if
you’re lucky thank you very much for
your time I appreciate okay no thanks
thank you
host leila today i get the opportunity
to talk to prize-winning author meg
rosoff to talk about her career in
writing and a little bit about her
latest coming-of-age novel what I was
what’s I guess the love story in what I
was it’s quite an abstract love story in
a way I mean it’s about two boys one of
whom is at boarding school in England in
1962 the other of whom has kind of
slipped through the cracks of society
and lives by himself in a fisherman’s
hut something sort of happens between
them it’s in an attraction of opposites
it’s not necessarily sexual relationship
but there’s an incredibly strong
connection do you think that that these
are issues that teenagers are facing
today the more you talk about the edges
of things the better and a lot of stuff
a lot of life happens at the edges and
you know that the classic thing when I
was growing up was that you felt like a
freak because nobody else thought the
same way you did and that’s just rubbish
you know I mean no matter how kind of
weird and twisted you are you’re not
alone really maybe you want to tell us
where when you started thinking about
this idea for what I was and why were
you got inspired for it I read an
article in The Guardian in London about
guy who lived in my neighborhood in
North London and he had just died he in
his 60s he had been abandoned by his
mother when he was two or three years
old literally on the side of the road I
think and picked up at some point by
gypsies or travelers he’d spent time in
boys homes and he’d always lived on the
outside of society and he didn’t need to
know exactly how old he was didn’t know
what his birthday was never had a
national health number never had a
credit card obviously and I just found
it completely amazing that somebody you
know ten years older than I am could be
living at the same time I was living
and just have nothing that connected him
to the modern world and then you know it
sort of starts to you start out with an
idea like that and it starts to tie in
with all sorts of other ideas that
you’ve had you know about other things
and before you know you have a book if
you’re lucky thank you very much for
your time I appreciate okay no thanks
thank you
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