 Drinkwater revealed to The Guardian, in October 2017, that the experience of the starlet Marguerite in "The Lost Girl" was based on her own experience of being sexually assaulted by Elia Kazan while auditioning for the leading film role in his film "The Last Tycoon" (1976).In 2018 Penguin signed a second deal with Drinkwater for two more novels.The first, published in May 2019, is "The House on The Edge of The Cliff".