Goodreads asked Hannah Fielding:

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

Hannah Fielding Venice itself was my inspiration, and the notion of deception, masks and the true self versus that which is projected. In The Echoes of Love a large part of what my heroine Venetia sees when she meets Paolo is a mirage, because Paolo carries a dark and heavy secret in his heart that colours his outlook on life, a terrible truth that could both taint their love and, ultimately, tear them apart forever.

What better setting for this story to unfold but the annual Venice carnival, when nothing is what it seems and everybody is hiding his or her true self behind a mask?

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