Goodreads asked D.B. Martin:

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

D.B. Martin It started with wanting to describe one of my mother's memories of the rag and bone men who used to come around in the 1950's - but of course are no more now. It was so vivid in my head I wrote only that section and then started to explore what else was going on at the time. I ran across some of the experiences of children in children's homes, and wanting to put a bad past behind them, and then the ideas just took on a life of their own.

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