Goodreads asked Camilla Trinchieri:

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

Camilla Trinchieri Seeking Alice is based on some facts in my family's life in Prague and Italy during WWII. The idea to write about that period came when a therapist I was seeing thirty years ago said how difficult it must have been for my American mother to be in Europe and married to an Italian during the war. Jonah intrigued me as I had never stopped to think of my mother as an individual. I did not grow up with my mother as she was mentally ill and therefore did not know her. By writing this book I created a mother I could love and at the same finally understand what my mother had gone through. The skeleton of the story is based on fact, the flesh is pure fiction. It took many years of research and interviews with people who had lived through that period. I wanted to make it as real as possible. Whenever I got stuck I would write a mystery to keep the writing going. Long answer to a short question. I hope that's okay.

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