“My mother died when I was only thirty, she was fifty-seven. I hoped to give her a chance at another life…” John Thorndike talks about his motivation for writing his new historical novel – One Hundred Fires in Cuba. “Clare (the heroine) was generated by my mother…..The book is really her story and her battle or debate or conflict with this man that she fell in love with and had a child by.
I don’t change any history, but I add some to history.
The scars of life can remind us where we have been, they don’t have to dictate where we are going.
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