Goodreads asked Stephanie May:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Stephanie May While attending an Eric Burdon/the Animals concert in Sydney. I looked around the room while Eric sung House of the Rising Sun, and I thought about my fellow concert-goers and wondered about their past, and what it would have been like to have been in my prime when that song came to our shores back in 1964.
I flipped through history books and learned what about the biggest moments during the Swinging Sixties were, and of course, the Vietnam War was on every page. I wrote a story about two young lovers who are torn apart by the war, and how the aftermath affected their lives forever.
The result is a novel called Memories of Then ...

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