Goodreads asked Dawn Bates:

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

Dawn Bates I got the idea for

The Potent Power of Menopause: A Culturally Diverse Perspective of Feminine Transformation

when I was sailing across the Atlantic Ocean because I hadn't been able to find anything written by women from the human perspective, whilst learning and laughing along the way. All the books were either medical, drier than the Sahara Desert or a singular voice.

The books on the market were written from a mono-cultural perspective and in a diverse world where families are vastly different in cultures, there was a need for a different awareness of menopause.

Not every woman wants or needs HRT, which is the middle class white narrative of England. Not every woman in India wants a hysterectomy to 'deal with it', and pretty much every woman has no idea what to expect or where to get unbiased, culturally filtered information from.

So I drew up the plan, and then got to work when I reached land, and the rest as they say is history.

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