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Goodreads asked Jonathan Weisman:

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

Jonathan Weisman No. 4 Imperial Lane was inspired by my added year in college, when I went to live with a quadriplegic and his sister in Brighton, England. I only knew the barest of details on the family and how he had broken his neck. The story of David Heller in Brighton is largely autobiographical. The story of Elizabeth, Hans, and the wars of liberation in Africa are fiction but without doubt "inspired by true events."

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