Literary memoir with snapshots of life at the famous University of East Anglia. Intense search for meaning combined with a mother's recognition of role with son and desire for rapprochement.
ROSIE JACKSON has degrees from Warwick and York, has taught at East Anglia and other universities and is widely published. Her books include FANTASY: The Literature of Subversion, MOTHERS WHO LEAVE and a volume of poems, THE LIGHT BOX. She lives near Frome, Somerset, where she works with the creative arts in community and health settings.
Rich, brave, engaging..a far-reaching and thought-provoking memoir. Jane Rusbridge, THE DEVIL'S MUSIC; Rosie Jackson is a fine, fine, writer and I feel this book is very significant. I hope her great heart and mind touch thousands, and that you allow her hard-fouhgt wings to lift you nearer to the sun. Daniel Ladinsky, HAFIZ: The Gift; Intense recall of a life passionately lived. With vivid dialogue and pointed humour, Rosie Jackson's moving and engrossing memoir explores the divisions in her experience, tracks the relationship with the son from whom she was parted, and gives a telling critique of academia. She reaches at last a generous understanding of her own difficult childhood and the discovering of a larger life through devotion; Dame Gillian Beer, VIRGINIA WOOLF The Common Ground
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