Goodreads asked Ruth Estevez:

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

Ruth Estevez I got the idea for Jiddy Vardy in a bookshop in Robin Hood's Bay. A friend lived there, and I used to visit her there loads. There was a second hand bookshop with piles of books on the floor, shelves like a maze. On a rainy day, you could spend hours in picking out books. There was a section of local history books and leaflets bye the cafe. I bought, 'A Rum Do!' by a local writer, Patricia Labistour. It was all about smuggling in the area. There were three pages on a female smuggler called Jiddy Vardy. It caught my imagination and my book is very loosely based on her. She wasn't a local girl and the idea of 'fitting in' and 'belonging' as well as smuggling fired me up.

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