by Alice Gilmore
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GENRE: Non-fiction
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Few,
if anyone, could have had a life like Alice Gilmore. It was almost unbelievable
yet carried on under the cover of a respectable middle-class existence.
You might strongly
disapprove of what she did, but Alice was determined. She overcame
insurmountable obstacles to keep the love she longed for.
Her single-minded fight
to live out her love makes a gripping, riveting story that one eminent literary
person called ‘staggeringly readable’. It is shocking. Her methods will upset
some, but are you with her or against her? Your decision.
This is no misery
memoir. It’s a story told with joy, wit and fervour – the astonishing story of
the overwhelming love Alice Gilmour was determined to live out.
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Excerpt:
I am going to tell you our story, my darlings. It is really
only for you three and one other (you know who) but I can’t help hoping that
the world will read it, which is why I shall probably publish it. But not for
some years. When you’re fully grown up and have flown the nest. God knows what
they will make of it, the world I mean, whoever they are, but I am not
suggesting that any rules or taboos should be changed by our story, or new
rules made. Leave all that alone. Our story, perhaps I should say my story,
just is. You could tritely call it the exception that proves the rule. Perhaps
that is just what it is: unique. I doubt that but it is certainly
extraordinary. I have carefully chosen those words. Any old event of yawning
banality is called ‘amazing’, ‘fantastic’, ‘unbelievable’, ‘fabulous’ in our
current jargon. Whatever else people may call my story it is certainly
extraordinary.
It is, above all, a love story, an all-consuming love story,
though I have never felt consumed by love, rather continually renewed. But
isn’t that what love should do to you? Consume you and renew you constantly
like the phoenix. And it brought with it another constant emotion: fear. And
pain. The fear of pain. The fear of the pain of losing it, this wonderful
state. The word love doesn’t fully express what I/we felt. Another word that is
more or less totally debased.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
If you want to
know about my life and background read this book. I can scarcely add to what I
have written about myself in there. I earnestly hope that the rest of my life
is too uneventful to even consider writing anything else, I am no novelist. The
life I have described was full enough and rich enough for me. God knows what I
would come out with if I had to invent. If you find you need a good chef I
shall consider anything not too energetic – which rules out most jobs in the
kitchen.
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ReplyDeleteDo you let anyone read drafts of your book before it is finished?
ReplyDeleteNo, i let nobody see this book before I was ready to because of the content, which could be dynamite to some people. I was waiting till I was ready and my children were grown up but events overtook me. I had to publish when they were still teenagers but they have taken it beautifully, as you can see from the book and all is well. Yours, Alice.
DeleteSounds like a good book.
ReplyDeleteI've read it and it's brilliant!
DeleteIt is, Rita.Read on and I promise you that you will be transfixed. You may hate it or love it but you will not be lukewarm. Yours, Alice xxx
DeleteThanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness!!! This sounds absolutely amazing!! The excerpt is captivating.
ReplyDeleteRead on, Mya, and you will be further captivated. I promise. Yours, Alice xxx
DeleteThe book sounds really great.
ReplyDeleteIt is, Dale. I can promise you a riveting read even if you end up against me and what I did with my life. Yours, Alice xxx
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting my book, really grateful, and hope some will be encouraged to read, Alice xxx
ReplyDeleteThe excerpt does intrigue me so I'll be checking it out
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