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Goodreads asked Beth Miller:

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

Beth Miller I got the idea for The Good Neighbour (out in September 2015) from the local newpaper. I was reading an article about a woman who’d run lots of marathons. Her child was very ill, and she was raising money for the relevant charity. I think most people reading such an article would probably feel sorry for the mother and child, but my first thought was, hey, what if she was pretending, and her child wasn’t sick after all? Then I felt ashamed of myself and channelled the bad thought into a fictional story.

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