大象传媒

Anne Donovan describes her inspiration for the text and describes her own feelings of childish joy when she used the glitter pens. She highlights the importance of colour in the story describing our reaction to death being silence and rejection of colour, but Clare celebrates life through colour. The author explains that she chose to write about a child in the transition years as this enabled her to explore a character who is aware of some adult experiences and yet still a child. Donovan finally talks about the differences between a novel and short story. She draws parallels with a poem through its 'resonance' and describes the ending as simply resonating without having to tie everything up.