Goodreads asked Marsali Taylor:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Marsali Taylor Oooh, interesting question ... well ... here's one. When I was a child we had a rowing dinghy at our summer cottage, and seven or eight years ago I got the dinghy back again - the theory was she'd be a tender for our 'big' boat. Inserted into the thwart was a photo of a girl aged 11 or 12, blond, slightly Nordic looking, with the name, age and date on the back, in Danish-style writing. She's nobody we know - and the boat was my dad's, he was the last person to have varnished her. An unknown half-sister? Or just a photo he'd found in a second-hand book that he'd decided would be the boat's guardian spirit? Who knows...?

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