![]() ![]() ![]() (less)ġ of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars The entire book then developed around that. I had a very specific scene flash through my mind and I wrote a rough draft of it right then. Being the person I am, I started asking myself what if? What if the teenage girl had been pregnant? Would that be a comfort or a curse to her mother? What if the mother had suffered her own tragedies? What if she was a single parent? What if she thought something more sinister had happened? What if she’d been murdered, but nobody would listen to her? ![]() ![]() Losing your child is every parent’s worst nightmare, and I imagined myself in her circumstances. I’m not a lawyer, so I can’t weigh in on this, but I am a mother, and my first thought when I read this story was for the girl’s mother and the heartbreak she must’ve been feeling. There was a lot of talk at the time about the legal and moral implications. Christina McDonald The idea for Night Olivia Fell came when I read a story about a teenage girl in California who was declared brain dead after a routine tonsillectomy w …more The idea for Night Olivia Fell came when I read a story about a teenage girl in California who was declared brain dead after a routine tonsillectomy went wrong. ![]()
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