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Goodreads asked Martina Devlin:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Martina Devlin Free rein to use your imagination: to sit daydreaming about what-ifs and to turn them into fiction.
Also, writing offers an opportunity to take episodes from history which have been allowed to fade into obscurity and shine a line on them. I did this with my previous novel, The House Where It Happened, inspired by a mass witchcraft trial in Ireland in 1711. I'm fascinated by the stories communities choose to remember and to share - and more fascinated by the ones they'd prefer to wither away.

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