Goodreads asked Alan Bayles:

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

Alan Bayles I based the idea on my childhood fear of mirrors. Growing up as a child I was quite scared of the dark and mirrors. I could not have a mirror in my bedroom, as I thought something was watching me and creeping out of it and stalking me in the darkness while I slept. There was also an old abandoned isolation hospital in the village I lived in growing up, which other children (myself included) found quite intimidating and scary.

As I grew older I always had the idea of writing a story incorporating my childhood fear of mirrors and using that old abandoned isolation hospital. It has been constantly in the back of my mind for over thirty years.

I also love the idea of alternate worlds and once I sat down properly and thought about it, I realised I possibly had the makings of a good science fiction thriller.

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