Goodreads asked Diane Thomas:

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

Diane Thomas When I wrote the first draft of IN WILDERNESS, nearly 35 years ago, I was very ill and feared I was dying. I wrote it to distract myself from my fears. I deeply wanted to be in the mountains a couple hours north of Atlanta but was too weak to go. I created a woman my own age, sent her into that mountain wilderness to die or heal. When I rewrote the early manuscript, in 2009, and it became IN WILDERNESS, I'd moved to New Mexico and was blindsided by homesickness for those same gentle southern mountains and again I couldn't get there. So I wrote the novel as a way to get there without being there.

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