Goodreads asked Suzanne M. Wolfe:

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

Suzanne M. Wolfe When I was 12, I was studying St. Augustine's "Confessions" in Religion class and I asked the teacher, Sister Bernadette, what the name of Augustine's concubine was (he calls her Una--the One--in the "Confessions"). She replied that no none knows, that the concubine is "lost to history." That phrase "lost to history" stuck with me (fell into the swamp) and 40 years later, I decided to find the concubine and let her speak--tell her own story, the "confessions" of her own life. Hence the title, "The Confessions of X," (X because she is nameless).

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