Goodreads asked Clive Warner:

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

Clive Warner I've always wanted to write a book based in the late 1950s/early 1960s so I decided to base a story set in and around the village of Hightown, where I grew up. I also wanted to write an action-adventure, and like many of my generation I am fascinated with World War 2, which still hung like a cloud over our childhood days. It was while I was editing a historical novel set in the Boer War that I realised I could combine the two, by use of a literary device that enabled me to send the main character back to fight in the battle of El Alamein.

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