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The Scent of Chrysanthemums
The Scent of Chrysanthemums
The Scent of Chrysanthemums
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How well do we know each other? What do mothers really know about the secret lives their daughters lead? Do daughters appreciate the lives their mothers lived before they came along? What about friends, our most important relationship next to our families? What do we really know about them? All of us filter the information we receive and decide what to believe and what to reject. Our closest relationships are subject to this sifting of the truth, even more so than the casual contacts of our everyday lives. Here, then, are three women: Nancy Maynard, her daughter Jennifer Scott and social worker Bernadette McGee who becomes Nancy’s unlikely companion in the last years of her life. What they tell each other is the truth, right? Or is it?

LanguageEnglish
PublisherPamela Lamb
Release dateApr 26, 2020
ISBN9780463438848
The Scent of Chrysanthemums
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Pamela Lamb

Must ... stop ... writing ... Sometimes I really wish I could. It gets in the way of real life. At the weekend I prefer sitting in front of the computer with my pretend friends instead of going out with my real ones. It destroys my sleep. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night knowing I need to change one word in the paragraph I wrote the evening before - and I have to get up and do it. And it makes me a dangerous driver. Get me on the road and my characters start having conversations in my head. And why are they so much more lucid and logical then than when I attempt to scribble them down at the next red light?I write because I love language. I love English with its collection of mongrel words. It's like an enormous button box where you can pick between half a dozen languages each one of which holds the history of Britain at its heart. I love the shape of words and the sound of them. I love what you can make them do on the page. And what you can make them do to your readers. Laugh, cry, stay up at night.What I like best is having a conversation with a reader about one of my characters. The reader talks about my character as if s/he is a real person. Discusses the character's motivation. Speculates about what the character did after the end of the novel. And I think, but it's all made up. Every bit of it. Out of my head.Then I know it is all worthwhile. Bringing characters alive to walk on the page. Creating a world for them to live in. Immersing myself in the shape and rhythm of a novel in the making. It's exciting stuff. And it's even more exciting when the book is finished and I hand it over to you, the reader. Enjoy!

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