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This will cry podcast. Kim Donovan, welcome to the show. Thank you for your time and for speaking to me. Do you want to say hello to my audience?

Yes, I would. Thank you so much. Hello, everyone. Thank you, Stuart, for inviting me along. And I'm very much

looking forward to talking about the mysterious Mrs. Hood. Yeah, so we're here to promote your book.

Now, on the day of recording, it's February 20. If this comes out on Thursday, the 22nd of Feb,

by the time my audience hears this, it will be out already. So you've got to kind of work with a time travel brain when you're doing this kind of stuff.

The mysterious Mrs. Hood, we will get there.

Before we do, let's talk a bit about yourself.

Because this kind of all came about from when you were 10, I believe, you mentioned,

that you stumbled across this mysterious black and white photograph that

piqued your interest. What's that story? Yeah, indeed. So yeah, as a 10-year-old, it was at my

grandparents' bungalow. They had this kind of big bag of family photographs. And when I

used to go around there and spend the weekends

over with them, I used to look through this bag of photographs. And I was just fascinated by all

of them really. But there was this one that really called out to me. And at the time, I wasn't

really sure why it might have been because it was so different.

It was a black and white image. So we're talking about the 90s. So there was a lot of

vibrancy in color in the 90s. So it looked very different from from other images that I was

obviously used to seeing at the time. So I asked my grandmother about the people in the image and she didn't really

know too much about them. All she knew was that the woman in the image was her mother's sister,

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