Goodreads asked Sheena Lambert:

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

Sheena Lambert I have long been fascinated by the many manmade lakes that resulted from dams being built across the world in the last century particularly, and the drowned villages that lie beneath them.

In my home country of Ireland, a number of valleys were flooded to provide drinking water and electricity to urban areas in the mid 1900s. Having read accounts of the locals who had been forcibly uprooted from their homes and livelihoods in those valleys, I knew I wanted to set a novel in a similar landscape.

My characters were already living in my head - four adult siblings left to manage a family business after the death of their parents, and the setting and the story came together for me very easily.

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