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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on J. C. Burke's The Story of Tom Brennan. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
Based on Real Life. In interviews, J.C. Burke has spoken at length about how Tom's experience of seeing the accident for the first time mirrors Burke's experience of learning her mother had cancer when she was a child. She insists that this wasn't intentional and, instead, sees it as proof that an author truly cannot separate her experiences from her writing.
Sons. The Story of Tom Brennan was inspired by a conversation J.C. Burke had with her mother-in-law about raising their sons and how parenting sons differs from parenting daughters.