Howdy! We are super pleased to welcome Tom Pollock back to the blog today to talk about his new release Our Lady of the Streets, the third book in the excellent Skyscraper Throne trilogy and the central friendship in the story. Please give it up for Tom! The Skyscraper Throne is the story of a friendship. (Okay, so it’s also the story of runaway train ghosts, and glass-skinned street lamp spirits, and giant wolves made out of scaffolding and a demolition god with cranes for fingers, but mostly, it’s the story of a friendship.) That friendship exists between two seventeen year-old girls who, like a lot of pairs of best friends, couldn’t seem less alike: graffiti-artist Beth Bradley – impetuous, adventurous, occasionally vicious but with a generous heart; and Parva ‘Pen’ Khan: bookish, religious, shyly funny and unbelievably tough. Sure they fight, and they lie to each other in big and small ways, and sometimes they hurt each other, but they need each other too. They’re each other’s first phone call. To say that ‘stories are about people’ is to state something so obvious it’s absurd. What’s perhaps a little less obvious is that they’re about the relationships between people. […]