Brittany asked Claire Fuller:

Thanks for liking my review of Swimming Lessons. Your book has ruined all other books for me at the moment. I am still in Flora and Ingrid's world. Thank you for loving readers and for writing a book that so beautifully honors readers. I was wondering what inspired you write about the 1970s and 80s? Both of your books have taken place around that time.

Claire Fuller Hi Brittany, thanks so much for reading it, and sorry about the book-hangover! With Our Endless Numbered Days I decided to make Peggy about my age, and so it was appropriate that it was set (or started out) in the 1970s. Also I think it would be too easy for Peggy and James to be found if they had been in the forest more recently. The dates that Swimming Lessons is set happened by accident: I started writing it from Gil's point of view in a more recent time, but then realised I wanted to go back to when he and Ingrid met, and doing the calculation for the ages they were took me back to the 1970s. Thanks for the question!

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