Goodreads asked Jim Lowe:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Jim Lowe I revisited the dark, angry and intensely private poetry of my youth after I had given up film-making, or, more accurately - YouTubing!

At the time, about 2014, the news was full of stories of radicalised teenagers joining ISIS.

The two strands became entwined, and I wondered if my younger self could have strayed down that path if I'd fallen in with the wrong crowd. This was the spark that fired my latest creative obsession.

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