Goodreads asked Philip Casey:

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

Philip Casey See previous answer. I didn't get an idea as such. When I finished my last (most recent) novel, I turned to history for relief, much as I'd done having finished The Water Star, my second novel. (The reading of African history, and the realization that many Africans featured in European Renaissance art, along with several other streams of thought, had indirectly led to my third novel, The Fisher Child). I began querying what I thought I knew about Irish history, and also passages in book which I'd taken for granted. This interrogation resulted in notes, the notes were expanded, and then some of the notes reminded me of the middle section of The Fisher Child. So it's a process, rather than an idea, and it never ends up how one intends, in my experience!

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