![]() ![]() ![]() She was 93 she might conceivably even be alive today if she hadn’t lost her dentures. My mother never intended to die, ever, and the stupid accident which killed her could easily have been avoided. I don’t think it will be much like Nikki’s book. But it is on my list and should be finished by mid-year. I wrote it not long after but haven’t been able to bring myself to go back and edit it, let alone publish it. ![]() I’ve already written my own version, about the death of my mother and my ex-husband within three weeks of each other back in 2008. Memoir, true story, traumatic experience, mothers and daughters. Her books seem to fall between a few stools: genre fiction, literary fiction, self-help, essay.īut her new book, After, is definitely in my territory. I have to confess it is the only one I have read. Nikki Gemmell is already a very well-known writer, with a lively career as a magazine journalist as well as ten plus full-length books, the best known being her first, The Bride Stripped Bare. Sometimes books appear and you know right away you want to read them. ![]()
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