Jeremy Good asked Jane Cable:

Hi Jane, as a fellow author, I'm always really interested in what inspires the initial spark to write a particular story. Can you say what first inspired you to write The Faerie Tree?

Jane Cable Hi Jeremy. For me the initial spark is always a place. I first thought about a book set around the tree near the Hamble the very first time I visited it. It was so magical, with the gifts and letters from the children and the replies and thank you notes from the faeries. I knew there just had to be an interesting story behind the type of person who would go to all that trouble. To make the story take life I needed a second spark of inspiration and that come one morning in Winchester when I was having a cup of coffee looking out at the homeless men gathering at the Buttercross and the thought crossed my mind as to what it might be like to recognise one of them as an old flame.

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