Author
Q & A
 Q: Maeve goes through a lot of
hardship and growth in this novel! Was it difficult
for you as a writer to create such suffering for
her? (Aimee Heavey)
TW: Yes, but one of the rules of
good fiction is to make your characters suffer. I didn’t
have a full understanding of Maeve’s history or the
scope of her journey until I wrote the story as women’s
fiction. There were times when I paused after brainstorming
a new possibility, thought, “Can I really do that to
her?” before realizing that I had to; it supported
one of the main premises of the story: “Knowledge comes
from caring enough to suffer and learn.”
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