Angourie Rice

And that shouldn't actually affect how you feel about your work.

Yes.

So we wrote, we've written two novels together.

Our first one, Stuck Up and Stupid, is a retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in contemporary Sydney.

Our second one, My Wonderful Disgrace, is a, it's a novel all told in texts, emails, transcripts, police reports.

diary entries letters and it's set over one night at a school dance and it's about all these characters and what they imagine their school dance is going to be like and what actually happens and it's very much like I think that is a big theme of the book is like

How do you manage your expectations of something that's going to be so magical?

You think it's going to be magical and wonderful and special.

And then what happens?

Can you deal with it if that is not the case?

Who are you going to be if you don't get this thing that you think is going to happen for you?

Where did that idea come about?

So the idea was...

My mum wrote it as a play in the mid to late 2000s that was never produced, but she, like, wrote it and workshopped it for my dad's... He was doing a master's in theatre directing.

Yeah.

So...

She wrote it for that.

After we wrote our first book together and that came out, we were kind of like, well, we want to work together again.

What should we do?

And she had like revisited this idea a couple of times.