Goodreads asked Zoé Perrenoud:

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

Zoé Perrenoud At an exhibition about gardens. There was a documentary about the garden of Bomarzo (Italy), which is filled with these monstrous and fantastical statues. Some of them were chosen after the owner of the garden lost his wife. I liked the idea of a character building a cursed garden after a loss and things spiralled from there...

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