Katherine Alexandra Harvey shares the process of creating her piercing debut novel, Quiet Time, a project six years in the making. She touches on the importance of dichotomous characters, the lure of folklore, and what it was like to draw from her own journey of pain and self discovery\u2014creating and healing in tandem\u2014and inevitably, to let it all go.
\n\u201cQuiet Time\u201d is an unchronological coming-of-age story detailing the main character, Grace's, journey to find her voice after a lifetime of being silenced. Told through vivid and mesmerizing vignettes\u2014cut-jagged with themes of addiction, mental illness, the supernatural, and obsessive relationships\u2014it is her story of resilience, bravery, and redemption.