Goodreads asked Lucinda Roy:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Lucinda Roy One of the mysteries in my own life that could be a plot for a book is related to a few instances when I sensed something was about to happen, or I dreamed it occurred before it did. I think it's one reason why in THE FREEDOM RACE and in FLYING THE COOP, the next book in the series, dreams play a central role in the psyches of characters. The epigraph that opens the book "Dreams are promises the imagination makes to itself," assigned to the mysterious Toteppi tribe, is true for me. Dreams and imagination are linked in mysterious and magical ways. The episodes where I appeared to foresee an event shook me enough that I took careful note of them. I briefly mentioned the first dream I remember in my poem "Carousel" about my father's death when I was five years old. The line in the poem is simple: "I dreamed you died." It's true. The next morning when I awoke, my mother stood next to the bed and said simply, "Daddy's dead." I replied, "I dreamed it," even though I had no idea how sick he was prior to that moment. (Children weren't allowed to enter wards in the UK in those days, and there was a lot of prejudice directed at biracial children and at mixed marriages in particular.) I'm glad you asked this question. I think as writers we often work through the mysteries that haunt us in our novels. It's how we come to terms with our own ghosts.

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