Jan asked Daniel Lowe:

What was your inspiration for creating "All That's Left Behind to Tell"? I can't wait to order a copy as it sounds fantastic.

Daniel Lowe That's often a complex question to answer, as the roots of your own narratives are sometimes challenging to trace. The simplest response is that, like many of us, I was paying attention to events in the Middle East (though I started writing the novel before the rise of ISIS), horrified by some of what I saw as a result of terror attacks and retaliatory drone strikes, while at the same time my eldest daughter was going away to college. Somehow these international and personal circumstances stirred in my head, and I was intrigued by the prospect of writing a novel about an American man who was kidnapped in Pakistan just after his daughter had been murdered back home. And I wondered further how he might remember his daughter's life if he was blindfolded while his interlocutor interrogated him. The novel spun forward from these early ideas.

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