Goodreads asked Deborah Burrows:

How do you get inspired to write?

Deborah Burrows I'm so sorry that I missed your question. I am inspired to write by many things. Ambulance Girls was inspired by an article i read in a newspaper of 1941, which was about the first Western Australian girl to be cited for extreme bravery in the London Blitz. I read the article and the character of Lily Brennan, the heroine of Ambulance Girls just appeared in my mind - and I needed to write her story. I wanted it to write about bravery in really tough times. I'd been talking to my father-in-law, who lived through the Sheffield Blitz and it set my imagination on fire. But I know London much better than Sheffield, so London it was!!

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