Goodreads asked Kathy Shuker:

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

Kathy Shuker I've been struck for some time by how little we tend to know about our families - maybe a little about our parents' history and background, occasionally something about our grandparents. But there are often holes, sometimes big ones, and occasionally what we think we know is not true at all. That became clear to me watching successive episodes of 'Who Do You Think You Are' on the television. Over and over again we saw well-known people finding out that things they had assumed were fact were actually family myth, sometimes fabricated to hide an unpleasant truth. It got me thinking... And Silent Faces, Painted Ghosts was the result.

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