Goodreads asked Kathy Shuker:

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

Kathy Shuker The greatest mysteries in my life revolve around my forebears. It seems to be a fact of life that we only become really interested in our recent ancestors when there are few people left alive to shed any light on them. My paternal grandfather married twice. He hailed from northeast Yorkshire yet spent much of his life around Liverpool. I have often wondered how he came to do that and also about how he came to meet his second wife, my grandmother. She grew up in Shropshire. I never met her but I have always been intrigued by the family 'story' that she felt unfavourably compared to her husband's late first wife. Was that because of a natural insecurity or did something happen to make her feel that way? I shall never know but the idea intrigued me and ultimately, changed and developed, became part of the plot of my second novel, Silent Faces, Painted Ghosts.

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