Goodreads asked Carol Mason:

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

Carol Mason When I began After You Left it was because I was helping my mother sell our family home in England and moving her to Canada. I hadn't prepared myself for the torrent of nostalgia and grief I would feel at letting the home go. Then I saw the Andrew Wyeth painting, Christina's World, and it spoke to those emotions - almost like a little voice was telling me that somewhere, somehow, there is a book here... This inspired the second storyline that is set in the 80's. But the modern day storyline of Alice's husband walking out on her on their honeymoon leaving only a mysterious note - I have no idea where that came from!

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