5/27/2023 0 Comments David almond first book![]() ![]() But I don’t think I could have used them properly without first denying them. It was only when I got to the point of realising that that wasn’t working, and just sighing and saying, ‘Oh yes, that’s what I am’ and accepting those things, that they actually brought a great deal of richness and imagery to my work, and a language and rhythm which I had been kind of denying myself. I spent a long time trying to struggle against those things and cast them out from my work. There were certain things about me that I couldn’t change like the fact that I had been brought up as a Catholic that I had been brought up living in the North East. ![]() It was to do with discovering the way I write, the way I speak which is kind of dictated by the language I grew up with. For me it was a matter of accepting certain things about myself that were going to be the things that gave me my true voice and my true subject. ![]()
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