Goodreads asked Samantha Henthorn:

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

Samantha Henthorn In 2014, I joined a creative writing class at my local library. I had recently been retired due to ill health (I've got MS) from my 20 year nursing career. Anyway, one of the first short stories I wrote was called 'Winter', this included the characters Harold, his wife Edith and her sister Edna. I got the idea for these curmudgeonly characters after a man was rude to me in a supermarket car park! I was parked in the disabled parking bay, and he wanted my spot! And I tell you what, he could walk very quickly too! I thought pah! And Harold was born. Me, on the other hand, I'm six books later and part way through a creative writing degree.

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