Goodreads asked Allene Symons:

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

Allene Symons The story of how I came up with the idea for Aldous Huxley's Hands is at the heart of my book. A dozen years ago I found boxes in the garage containing 1000 labeled photographs of hands, photos taken almost half a century ago by my eccentric engineer father. One of those images of hands turned out to be the hands of the literary great Aldous Huxley. My astonishment that my dad had been an unlikely friend of Huxley's when I was a child was the departure point, call it the obsessive departure point, of my book.

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