Roxie asked Kate Moore:

I often wonder when, and if, there is a moment that a story starts telling itself; as though you are but a channel. The lives of these girls were so horribly shortened by the actions of the company for which they diligently worked. The owners were so cavalier; so devious to establish their own health workers. Does it feel as though the girls spoke through you? Wonderful book, btw

Kate Moore Thank you for your question, your kind comment about the book, and for reading it in the first place. I can say that I feel a deep emotional connection to this story and to these women. I feel hugely privileged and honoured that I got to be the one to help them tell their story. As you know, I drew on a huge amount of first-person material to write the book, and tried to allow the women to use their own words to describe what was happening wherever possible. My name may be on the cover, but I feel strongly that this is THEIR book. And I wrote my first draft super quickly, in just shy of a month - their story poured out, tears and all. I wouldn't say, necessarily, that it felt as though the girls spoke through me - more that I provided the megaphone to help their voices to be heard.

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