Asked how she captured the perspective of a girl with cancer, she’s candid about her process. “My approach to research is to do it afterwards. I started writing this novel in a very organic way, as if I’d written it while sitting by a lake. And then the characters emerged, and I worked out what I wanted to do with them. At the beginning It evolved from paragraph to paragraph, page to page. Then at one point, I consulted an oncologist to check out various facts and make sure I was on the right track.”
Both Maddy and her love interest have a passion for the environment and are deeply invested in the climate crisis.