Buffie still cherishes memories of the Canadian wilderness that she fell in love with as a child. Unfortunately, when she was twelve, her father died of cancer, and her peaceful childhood came to an end. As a result, Buffie's mother had to work extra hard to keep the family together. Looking back, the author is not bitter about the experience of losing her father. In fact, as she told Dave Jenkinson in an interview for
Emergency Librarian, "It's a time that's full of really rich memories for me that I've used or tried to use in the writing that I do."
Another influence on the subject matter of Buffie's novels was her childhood fear of the dark. For her, Buffie told Jenkinson, bedtime "meant being cut away from that warm light downstairs that my parents basked in while I dealt with the dark and dreadful things that flickered and slid through the blackness of my room at night." Buffie was afraid of going to bed alone until her parents gave her a copy of Heidi that she was allowed to read before going to sleep. This book became her defense against the unknown.
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