Goodreads asked Umberto Tosi:

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

Umberto Tosi I always wondered if Ophelia really drowned. Queen Gertrude's second hand account of her falling off a bough into brook always sounded fishy to me. And reading her lines, before and after her mad scenes, I always thought there was more to her than a victim. I kept trying to shake the idea, but she kept revisiting me, until I gave in about a year ago, and dove in to that stream myself to see what happened.

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