I was born and educated in Australia and am originally from Queensland. During the writing of Our Father Who Art in the Tree I drew heavily on the power of the Australia landscape to infuse the story with place. I guess the point I was trying to make was that even in the blandest Australian suburb the power of the landscape is inescapable.
When I originally set out to tell the story at the heart of Our Father Who Art in the Tree I envisioned it as a film, but I didn’t expect to have to write it as a book before it became a movie. Once I decided to turn the screenplay into a novel the story took shape very quickly. Writing in the grey English winter made it easier to conjure the subtropics of Queensland.
Courtesy of Judy Pascoe's Official Site.