Johan Gabrielsen

What's the point?

How does it feel to have a goal of nothing?

I can see your headstone.

Here lies Gordon Grimes.

He made sure nothing happened.

And that's his dad.

You wonder...

Well, God, to have a dad like that, no wonder he has all these emotions and stuff that he can't talk about because he's constantly, and it happens throughout the book, he's being hammered by his dad.

I wonder sometimes if the setting is almost accidental in that sense that you could have put these people somewhere else, in a different setting, in a country setting or up in the mountains somewhere.

I don't know, but because they are so locked in what happened to them that the surfing

like in Breath.

In Breath, it has such a big part of the book, but here, as you mentioned before, it isn't that important.

It gives colour and character, but it doesn't really propel the story forward in itself, the importance of the surfing culture.

That's how I felt.

I felt that changing of perspective, I wonder if it had become even a stronger book if we have kept Gordon's perspective because it jumps all the time.

But at the same time, I do think that Malcolm Knox spends just enough time with each character before you start to become a little bit repetitive and then you switch to the next one.

So it's like, it's pulsating all the time forward the story with these different characters.

But yeah, I think that,

It would have hurt to be a little bit more of Gordon because he is the main character, but I sometimes feel you get a little bit sidetracked with all the other characters knocking on the door and wants to have their story told.

Jean Bennett is a guide in the wildlife park that you mentioned there.