Goodreads asked Cameron Darrow:

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

Cameron Darrow Originally for 'Remember, Novemeber,' it was just Victoria's opening scene. 'Women wakes up in an open grave with no memory of who she is.' That was it. Everything else spun out of that as I tried to answer the question of who she was. I had had 'magic in WWI' on the brain for a while then, and found a way to merge the two.

I'm a history nerd, having mostly been interested in WWII since I was a teenager. But as I got older, and the centenary of WWI came around, I found myself more and more intrigued by the sheer tragedy of it, the scale of the pointlessness was staggering, and it lacked the convenient 'good vs. evil' narrative of the Second World War.

The role of women in the Second World War is far more well known, with icons like Rosie the Riveter to help popularize it. Much the same thing happened in WWI, but it was less well-known. The emergence of women into the workforce during the war led to a lot of the upheaval of gender norms we see in the '20s with women gaining the franchise in the UK and the US, and the flapper movement, which was much more than just a fashion trend.

History is a jumping off point in this series, the chaos of the world at large told through the eyes of these extraordinary women, and what the upheaval going on around them means for their future.

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