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How It All Began
When I was at university a number of years ago (!) there was quite a bit of student unrest. Being a student, I was involved with it. Well, I was on the sidelines, but I was friends with the protesters. We all staged a march through town to hold a meeting. But before the meeting could take place, someone threw an egg at a policeman, and all hell broke loose. The police dived into the crowd to find the culprit, and together with my friend, I ran back to college. I was terrified.
I don’t apologise for being a coward. But from that day onwards I’ve been fascinated by the way protests can go wrong, and how easy it is to get caught up in crowd hysteria. You know what I mean – the way you feel different when you’re at a concert or football match – as if you lose your own identity and become just a limb of the crowd. That can be a very good feeling – or a very dangerous one.
That’s what Revolution is really about. But it’s also a love story. How can you have a novel without a love story? And a revolution is the best possible setting for a love story, because feelings are that much more intense. Both Beth and Nate have good personal reasons for wanting to be involved in a protest movement. Their school is being shut down mid-year. They want to save it. That’s good – but it’s also dangerous …