Goodreads asked John Moralee:

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

John Moralee The idea for The House in Willow Lane came from an incident that really happened when I was a boy. A friend lost a ball over a high fence into a back garden. The fence was too high to climb over – so we had to go up to the front of the house to ask for it back. In reality the owner was a kindly old woman happy to let us look for it in her garden, but I wondered what it would be like if the owner had not been so friendly. What if a boy stumbled upon a big secret? That situation became the start of my novel. The rest of the story developed organically.

The House on Willow Lane
US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HY0GN9Q
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HY0GN9Q

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