Goodreads asked Irene Sauman:

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

Irene Sauman I've always wondered why my parents never took me and my siblings to meet family members who lived in our country district. We had contact with my mother's family in Melbourne 200 miles away - aunts, uncles, cousins - but only knew our nearby grandparents on my father's side despite, I have since discovered, a larger group of his relatives living in the area. I did meet one, once, but just who was 90-year-old Aunt Lizzie? Thank you for this question. My answer has possibilities I hadn't considered.

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