Goodreads asked Sally Wood:

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

Sally Wood I actually wrote the first lines of ‘Sunderance’ years before I then worked on the full story. The opening was about someone really struggling to deal with all that they were and all they had done - the lines stuck with me and then found their home in ‘Sunderance’ as the perfect introduction to Scott. The main idea for the novel came from Pygmalion’s myth and the concept of aspirations or dreams versus reality. My novel is entirely fictional, of course, but some of the characters and ideas in the story are based on things that really happened.

The idea for the ‘The Boy From the Fairground’ has a much more literal starting point: a travelling fairground had set up in my local area and I saw a man from that fairground in a cafe. He caught my eye for a split second and that sparked the premise of the story, right there and then!

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