Goodreads asked Susan Elliot Wright:

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

Susan Elliot Wright The idea for my most recent book, What She Lost, came partly from a tragic story I read in a newspaper some years ago. I can't tell you exactly what the story was because it would give away too much about the novel, but I can tell you that it made me think about the effects that event would have on the family involved for years to come. I wondered how they would all cope as the little girl at the heart of the events grew older, and how and if she would remember what happened. This led me into thinking about memory, so there is an Alzheimer's storyline as well. The mother, Marjorie, is losing her memory due to disease, whereas the daughter, Eleanor, struggles to recall accurately something that happened when she was a child.

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