Mary Keane. IN the ROUND: TRACES of LIGHT. 2023.
A creative non-fiction memoir by my writer friend and former writing group mate, Mary. Superbly written. Centering on her early experiences living near Weymouth on the UK coast during WW II. With the focus on her childhood relationship with a severe and critical grandmother. Weaves time and place, childhood and adult, with the sea linking and separating, giving and taking life. Touches on the way we take too long to ask the important questions then have to use ephemera and imagination to create our own collage of the lives of our ancestors, whose presence is revealed in flashes in the mirror.
The round refers to the lighthouses her grandfather tended. The cover, a Victory brooch.
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