Debra asked Gayle Forman:

After all your success with YA novels, what brought you to write a novel about adults? Was the writing process different?

Gayle Forman I didn't set out to write an adult novel but after ten years of mining the emotional lives of young people, I found I wanted to write about marriage and motherhood and that wasn't something I could in a YA novel, at least the kind of YA novel I like to write. It was kind of a blast writing about families and little kids. The early draft had so much with the twins because I had so much material (I've got two daughters, not twins).

The writing process was the same. Only there is less sex in the adult novel.

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