SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA
SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA TOYED WITH THE idea of doing a novel that riffed on HG Wells’s SF mad-scientist urtext The Island Of Dr Moreau for quite some time before her own book came into focus. The problem, she realised, was Wells’s setting: a remote island in the Pacific.
“When I figured that I could move the action to Mexico in the 19th century, that’s when everything made sense,” she says. “And that’s when I was able to move forward. I had
