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William Bowles's avatar

Yes, the review explains why Pat wanted me to read it, though the review kinda avoids the essential political nature at the heart of the book, that revolves around Marie Cardinal's relationship, as a child in Algeria with Algerian children, a relationship that finds echoes in Apartheid South Africa's white childrens relationship to Black South African children and traumas caused by the enforced separation that happened when the white children reached puberty.

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Zarayna Pradyer's avatar

Thank you, William. I think you are very brave.

I'm sending healing thoughts. xxx

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William Bowles's avatar

Thank you Zarayna, it's been a long time coming and although my mum is a long time gone, I owe this one.

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Zarayna Pradyer's avatar

I can't get the 'like' button to work so, in its absence, xoxxo.

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William Bowles's avatar

Yeah, there are odd bugs that crop up now and again, try it again tomorrow, it might work then.

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William Bowles's avatar

A few thoughts after reading through this, for the umpteenth time. I will, at some point consolidate these episodes into a single book and expand on it at the same time and hopefully get it published. There's so much I haven't said, I'm an impatient writer and as I mentioned in the second installment, writing triggers the memory, incidents, feelings, get recalled by the act of writing but I'm the kind of writer who rarely edits what I've written except for details, rather, if I think it doesn't work, I remove it completely. Words tend to flow out of me unbidden and it's best not to tamper with them too much. I discovered this when writing song lyrics and poetry. One can overthink the creative process and ruin things.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Visceral.

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