Goodreads asked Miranda Miller:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Miranda Miller When I was a child I was intrigued by a story about my father's mother, who had left her first husband and two little daughters in South Africa to return to England with my infant father and second husband. When my father asked her who the two pretty little girls whose photos were on her dressing table were, she replied,'Oh they're my nieces in South Africa.' Something about the mystery of this - and the idea that mothers could up and go and deny that they were mothers at all - appealed to me and I did in fact use part of this story in my novel 'Loving Mephistopheles.'

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