Goodreads asked Lizzie Page:

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

Lizzie Page Most of my stories are inspired by real-life women in history - and 'When I was Yours' is no exception. I had been wanting to write about Lena Guilbert Ford - the woman who wrote 'Keep the Home Fires burning' with Ivor Novello, for some time. Then I became interested in a WW1 war-artist, named Olive Mudie-Cooke and I worked out a way I could weave a story around them. But 'When I was Yours' was also inspired by my Dad. He was evacuated from London to Leicester during WW2 and I had always found his experiences fascinating. I wanted to write about how it might have felt to host an evacuee child - what kind of emotions would it bring up...

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