Goodreads asked Stephen Policoff:

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

Stephen Policoff The short answer is that when I was discussing my disabled daughter's dire health with a neighbor, he confided in me that when his son was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum, he felt as if his beloved son had been whisked away and replaced by a changeling. That sent a shiver down my spine, and propelled me to do some reading and research in the lore of the changeling, which led me back to a poem by Yeats, a painting by the mad British artist Richard Dadd, a medieval legend...and much much more.

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