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Goodreads asked Katherine Harbour:

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

Katherine Harbour The idea for Thorn Jack originally came from the ballad Tam Lin. The second inspiration, later on, was a book written in the 1920s called Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, a collection of fairy folklore and reports by Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats.

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