Doing it for the kids
(Independent.ie Books)

When Brian Conaghan asked Sarah Crossan to write a book with him, it took her about 30 seconds to say yes. The pair had never met - he lives in Dublin; she lives in Hertfordshire - but they admired each other`s novels for young adults and embarked on what they describe as a `frenzied` collaboration. They finished the first draft of We Come Apart - a story of friendship and romance between two teenagers from very different backgrounds - in five-and-a-half weeks. `And I was away for a week of that,` says Crossan.