Goodreads asked Sue Williams:

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

Sue Williams My most recent book was Healing Lives, about an extraordinary Australian doctor, Catherine Hamlin, who went to Ethiopia in 1959 to set up a midwifery school. She soon discovered that so many young women there were suffering from terrible childbirth injuries that blighted their lives forever, and vowed to help them. I visited Ethiopia in late 2017/early 2018 and met Catherine and her great friend, Mamitu Gashe, a young peasant woman she mentored who ended up becoming one of the world's greatest fistula surgeons herself - despite never being to school for a day in her life. I was so overwhelmed, I thought this was a story that HAD to be told. It was inspiring, heartwarming and absolutely glorious!

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