![]() ![]() The film script started the same way as the book with the arrival of John Beck, but it finished with the Plain and Fancy Dress Ball. Also I had an entire set of characters that I’d lived with for a while, even cast them in my mind, so I was very familiar with them all when I began. I already knew it was going to revolve around one particular whaling season. ![]() Shirley Barrett: Having written it first as a feature film, it gave me a structure to hang the novel on, which helped. ![]() How did you go about approaching that transformation? Peter Meinertzhagen: Rush Oh! began life as a feature film script before you turned it into a novel. I caught up with Barrett to discuss the writing of Rush Oh!, where the story came from, and how her work for the screen influenced her novel. ![]() Rush Oh!, based on a real story, tells the story of a New South Wales whaling community in the early 1900s that worked together with a pod of killer whales that returned each year to Eden bay for whaling season. It’s with the publication of Rush Oh! that Barrett has quickly made her name as a novelist, with her debut featuring on the longlist for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016 and showing that her vivid and visual storytelling transfers perfectly to the page. Shirley Barrett is best known as a screenwriter and director whose first feature film, Love Serenade, won the Caméra d’Or at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. ![]()
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