Goodreads asked Paul Burman:

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

Paul Burman It's a ghost story, even though I'm a bit of a ghost sceptic. It grew out of a conviction from my son that, when he was three years old and first visiting the cottage I still live in, there was an old woman sitting in a chair in the kitchen when my wife (with the children) first inspected the house... even though no one else saw her. He was adamant about this for years. This piece of family history was coupled with an experience my wife and I had when inspecting an old terraced house in Barry, Wales, and sensed at exactly the same moment that there was something malevolent about the place and that we had to get out quick .

Recently finished, I hope this book will be published in 2017.

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