"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

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"We were all so excited to go and meet up with him,". "I remember putting on an outfit just like his, the black and white outfit, and doing the moon-walking dance.

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