Kirsten Krauth

And so everyone was so generous.

And people are starting now to put photos up, you know, a lot of photos up on there, a lot of flyers, a lot of archival material in general.

So, yeah, it was an incredible resource.

Yeah, maybe they are.

I've always, I mean, I always wanted the project to keep going and I'd love to, I'd really love to look at the role of women in the scene because it wasn't just about music.

It was about feminism and it was about, there were filmmakers and designers and artists like Jenny Watson and photographers like Polly Ball and

So there are a lot of people who became hugely influential later on and often lived overseas as well.

Yes.

When I started writing this book and fiction in general, I returned to the books that had a huge impact on me as a teenager.

So writers like S.E.

Hinton and Judy Blume and Robert Cormier.

and Paul Zindel and Puberty Blues.

Yes.

He had great titles, great titles.

Yeah, he did books like The Pigman and The Pigman's Legacy, I Never Loved Your Mind.

I had a massive stack of them because when I was –

A teenager, every holidays, my dad would take me to a bookstore and I'd grab like 10 books to read over the holidays because I just devoured books.

And so I had all of Paul Zindel's.

And to me, reading them for the first time, they just opened up a whole new world.

But especially in terms of writing, in terms of voice, they just had such an immediate voice.