A Goodreads user asked Céline La Frenière:

How did you decide on Glaston Town as a subject for a novel?

Céline La Frenière Glaston Town is a story I have more or less lived through. From the time I grew up in Montreal, and lived and worked in Vancouver, Los Angeles and London, I always preferred deprived, colourful neighbourhoods over wealthier environments. It is their close-knit communities that attracted me to them. Besides, there’s something real about people who struggle to make ends meet or live on the margin.

There is a murder in this book. I didn't start out to write a murder mystery. By the time the crime takes place, the readers know the victim and the suspects intimately.

My initial purpose was to write the Solitary Kingfisher as a short novel.
It is the story of an odd boy who is grappling to find his identity in the rough neighbourhood where he lives with his single mother. Once I completed it, however, my characters would not let me go. They wanted to take me on a longer journey. So I kept on writing. The second book, The Rebels forced me to change gear. Whereas the first book saw outsiders as enemies, the Rebels took on a different quality. The enemies were within and leading to a savage murder. The third book, Unfinished Business becomes of whodunit. In the end, all three books were consolidated.

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