I think we all have a little bit of a child in us even as adults. Usually focusing on darker and more complicated issues in his novels, Brown said that he wrote a children's book as he wanted to get away from that dark world. ' is the only place that's been the capital of three empires, it is this bridge between east-west, its spectacularly beautiful,' Brown said. Brown, who acquired inspiration from traveling a lot and non-fictional books, said Istanbul is the city that he loves the most in the world.