![]() What can novelists offer the climate crisis? We’re not quite like journalists and scientists who are doing amazing work recording and spreading factual reports about climate change. I agree that ‘funny and upbeat’ sounds odd when we’re talking about climate change – but maybe it’s time to try talking in a different way. I hope my viewpoint on life – I find it absurd and endlessly fascinating – makes it funny, and the happy ending (of sorts) makes it upbeat. It enlists the aboriginal and ‘uncontacted peoples’ of the world in a carnival of opposition to the anti-life developers. MG: Yes indeed, The Red Children is a fable or as I sometimes think, a fairy-tale for adults. Could you expand on this? You describe it as a fable are you aiming (and hoping) to engage readers in a different way? ![]() SE: You said that you wanted to write an ‘upbeat, funny novel’ about climate change, which seems a pretty big ask. Professor Maggie Gee speaks to Writers Rebel’s Sharon Eckman about her new book The Red Children, released today, and how it might inspire wider understanding and action around climate change. ![]()
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