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Goodreads asked Sanjida Kay:

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

Sanjida Kay I got the idea for my first thriller, Bone by Bone, just after my daughter was born. I used to walk around Bristol to get her to sleep. My main route was through an urban nature reserve, or the allotments round where I live. I felt incredibly vulnerable - recovering from the birth, on my own in this urban wilderness and now responsible for a tiny, fragile newborn.

I started to imagine a character who has a much older daughter than mine, but feels vulnerable, isolated and lacking in confidence all the time. And I imagined what would happen if that person found out that her daughter was being bullied.

She would want to protect her child with all her heart, but she might not have the resources, both inner confidence, and family and friends around her, to do so.

What would happen if the bully has no boundaries? There is nothing that he will not do to her child...

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