Goodreads asked Lucy Winton:

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

Lucy Winton Two things inspired 'Wild Rose'. The first was the question: What if wolves weren’t extinct in Scotland? The book itself is set in a land very similar to Scotland and is heavily inspir

One night I dreamed that myself and someone else (I can’t remember her name in the dream) were hiding a girl in a café. She was concealed in a room that only women could enter (and no, it wasn’t the ladies’ toilets). Two or three men came into the café looking for her; they had no idea where she was, and they were on a time limit.

Then a woman came into the café and that was when things changed, because she could enter the room and find the girl. Luckily, she didn’t.

I’ve never been able to forget that dream, because it raised some very interesting questions. Why was the girl hiding? Why were we hiding her? Who were those people and why were they looking for her? Why was there a time limit?

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