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Goodreads asked Simon Edge:

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

Simon Edge It owes its genesis to my then agent, who noticed that Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Victorian poet, was intruding unbidden into another piece of writing. He suggested I get him out of my system by giving him a project of his own.

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