Um, so did you, with, with Grandpa, did you have to do a lot of research into dementia and, and kind of see if these, uh, these things you were suggesting were possible?

Absolutely.

And actually, just going back to the, the fact that Grandpa has dementia, that was one of those brilliant light bulb moments in the writing process that wasn't planned originally.

In my first, uh, not draft, but first thoughts about the book before I started even drafting it, was the fact that when Letty goes back in time, she will meet her grandpa as a, as a child.

And I just thought that would be a fun little thing, a bit like, you know, Back to the Future or whatever, that, you know, you, you meet someone from your own family when you go back in time.

But then it was that sort of spark of, oh, if he has dementia, then it brings this whole extra layer to what I can do with the story.

So- At that stage, um, my mom wasn't suffering from dementia.

So I, I, yeah, I think I, I felt that kind of similar thing of just y- you know, this is another big event or something.