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Goodreads asked Elinor Lipman:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Elinor Lipman Sorry to have taken a whole week to answer! The delay has been...can't think of a mystery in my own life to develop! I did do one of those Ancestry.com DNA tests (it was a gift, part of the swag the entire audience of "The View" received on day along with a hair dryer, books, and Barbara Walters' favorite hair products.) The results surprised me. Besides "European Jewish" which I expected, there was a little British, Irish, Western Asian and a fraction Mediterranean. So maybe I'd go back and figure that out. (I know, not a page-turner!)

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Hi Elinor, I love your novels and have read every one of them. I was rather late in getting to Good Riddance, but I was wondering whether you got the idea for a certain situation in the book from the background of the current president of France?

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She is a sixty-one year old auditor who has found employment always in analytical fields as government, banking, etc. Yet, when her office light is turned off she seeks peace, happiness and self-worth in a world of creativity. She writes, creates slogans, draws and dreams of writing one book in her lifetime. Sound like a good story??? It is real and is my life. Can a talent such as yourself offer me and advice?

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