Goodreads asked Liz Fielding:

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

Liz Fielding There's not much mystery about my own life. Happy family, parents married for fifty years, married myself for 45 this year. However I know my paternal grandmother was married twice and that my oldest aunt (born 1900 so a Victoria!) was her first husband's child. That only came to light a few years ago when I was digging around on an ancestry website. I can't imagine how hard it must have been to leave a man (with a one year old child) back then. Who was he, why did she leave him and how did she meet my grandfather (who she was with for the rest of her life - they had seven more children, my Dad being the youngest) and only married just before they died (when presumably her first husband died - the working classes couldn't afford a divorce in thsoe days.) which I think is wonderfully romantic. It would make a great story.

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