the first volume of
the Savages of Kipper Street series
A MeSsy Family having MaSses of FuN
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SAvAgE DAys: the navenchas (adventures) of Sadie Savage, her Sensitive New Age Grandma Angie, her parental units Delia and Phil and her snotty-nosed, squabbling twin brothers Peas and Mash, who get into some a-m-a-zing scrapes, plus last but not least: Toddy the bounding Irish wolfhound and Splendour the splendid cat.
Sometimes ideas for writing come from nowhere. Of course they never come from nowhere but sometimes it's tricky to pinpoint where they do come from...
Spoiler Alert:
this post contains details which reveal plot elements of Savage Days
SAvAgE DAys: the navenchas (adventures) of Sadie Savage, her Sensitive New Age Grandma Angie, her parental units Delia and Phil and her snotty-nosed, squabbling twin brothers Peas and Mash, who get into some a-m-a-zing scrapes, plus last but not least: Toddy the bounding Irish wolfhound and Splendour the splendid cat.
Sometimes ideas for writing come from nowhere. Of course they never come from nowhere but sometimes it's tricky to pinpoint where they do come from...
Sadie's escapades have an echo of A Bear called Paddington without the (inimitable) Bear; a dash of Max and Moritz, those 19th century German rapscallions; possibly a trace of Pippi Longstocking and that wacky cartoon series from the 1990s, Bangers and Mash. Some of these 'influences' only occurred to me while writing this presentation, for when I started SAvAgE DAys I wished merely to portray, in a purely comic light, a quirky, unruly family.
The family sprang to life as 21st century Londoners, living in a terrace house next door to grumpy neighbours. The narrator, Sadie, is an outspoken, individualistic teen, her father a keen Green, her mother a frustrated actor, her grandmother not the conventional 'nan', and her twin brothers as wicked as possible without being hooligans. There is also a gorgeous cat and a bounding hound.
