Goodreads asked Lee Battersby:

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

Lee Battersby A book called "Necropolis: London and its Dead" by Catharine Arnold. She discusses a survey of urban cemeteries in the 18th Century, where it was discovered that many urban cemeteries had been surrounded by tenements and urban sprawl to the point that tunnels had to be dug through the mountains of rubbish and detritus just to gain access. It was such an amazing image that it suck to the inside of my head and wouldn't let go.

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