Goodreads asked Kate Armitage:

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

Kate Armitage I was fired from a bottom-rung job and was hit with this (ridiculous) notion that I was 25, and therefore too old to turn things around. I felt like I had messed everything up and also that my peers had everything figured out when I hadn't. My news feed was just a long list of people getting promotions and going on exotic holidays. And after a long summer of being unemployed and spectating those exact people, I realised that news feeds are just well-chosen snapshots of the best version of ourselves and that we all feel a little lost and insecure sometimes. I also made it about two friends because I didn't want it to be a girl-meets-guy and gets rescued. There are no damsels in my book, just some cool women who can do anything once they learn to believe in themselves.

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