Chapter 11.
Mother loved to read books and would often ask me
to take out books for her from the Wattlebird community library. In particular she
loved local authors such as the brilliant Felicity Young, a writer of historical crime,
although Mother insisted that Ms Young’s latest novel —The Insanity of Murder
—was a thinly veiled account of her own life.
‘Does
Ms Young murder people?’
‘Not
quite, child, but I do think there are some people she’d like to murder.’
Suddenly
mother started writing book reviews. And it no time at all, she was writing
reviews for The Australian, the New Yorker and Paris Review. Again, mother was famous, but insisted on
living the life of a recluse while I fed her books and cups of tea.
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