Aldous Huxley biographer Sybille Bedford claims in her fictive memoir Jigsaw that the novel's characters Mary Amberley, a drug addict, and her daughter were partly inspired by her own experiences with her morphine-addicted mother and herself, known to Huxley because they were neighbours in the south of France.
Sybille Bedford, som skrev en biografi över honom, menar att romanfiguren Mary Amberley delvis var inspirerad av hennes mor, som var morfinmissbrukare, och som Huxley kände eftersom de var grannar i södra Frankrike.WikiMatrix WikiMatrix