First edition published December 2006 - reprinted in January 2007; layout and design by Barbara Mueller; Printing by MegaDigital, Cape Town.

About the Book:

Laurie Lee wrote in his book: “I can’t stay long” that "Autobiography can be the laying to rest of ghosts as well as an ordering of the mind." That it is also "a celebration to praise the life I’d had and so preserve it, and to live again both the good and the bad."
Here then, are my memories, all gathered and harvested together for those whom I have loved, whose enrichment of my life made it what it is – blessed.
It is in the nature of beginnings that they begin somewhere. And every beginning has its beginning in some other event. Like birth or death. But my story did not begin when I was born over seventy years ago, for this is not my story alone. Nor did it begin when George Bradshaw died, for he was not my first husband. And wasn’t my last…

Antoinette de Waal
Cape Town

Other publications by the Author:

LETTERS TO MY DAUGHTERS

NEW VOICES PUBLISHING WEBSITE

DISCLAIMER

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