Goodreads asked L.A. Smith:

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

L.A. Smith Two seeds planted the idea for this book. One was reading Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization. The story of the monks who lived in obscurity at the edge of the known world and preserved the great works of the ancients, bringing them back to the Continent during their missionary journeys after Rome's collapse was a fascinating one. Seeing the Lindisfarne Gospels in person at the British Library in London was another. The lives of these monks and the time they lived gave me the inspiration to set a novel in that time. And seeing as I love fantasy as well as history, I couldn't resist adding a modern age character into the mix, as well as the Fey!

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