Goodreads asked Christopher New:

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

Christopher New When I was about fifteen, my father's aunt turned up from Australia. She had been sent there apparently to get her out of the way because she was trouble at home. My faather hadn't heard about or from her for many years. She got off the boat and went to a police station and asked how to find my father. Her story was that she had run away from her Australian husband because he'd said in his sleep that he'd murdered someone in the outback. She died soon afterwards, so no one knew what really happened. I guess that could be at least the beginning of a book...

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