Release of newly updated Books
I have republished, edited and updated my memoirs, under a new title:
Happiness Is a Way Of Living: How I Escaped the Straitjacket of Serious Mental Illness, My Story
It is available as a paperback in full colour, printed on premium white paper to allow for the best reproduction of the B&W and Colour photographs. For those who would like to read it on their phones, tablets or computers, they will still be able to enjoy good reproductions,…..
Born in Africa, Uprooted by the Winds of Change: The Story of one family’s life in Africa from the year 1928 to the year 2000.
The story starts from my mother’s perspective, with her telling it in the first person. Part II and III are written in the third person, giving an insight into my father’s life as they live through the dramatic period of Southern African history, culminating with the end of Apartheid and its aftermath.
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I submitted the second edition of this book to my publishers last week. It will have photographs, a new cover and will be selling at a more reasonable price. I’ll be announcing the date it is available, on this blog as well as in the social media. Thank you for your patience. The book has many humorous stories as well as its dramatic and serious side.
Foreword
In this fictitious story, I have changed the names and dates to protect innocent people, others are characters taken from my book, “Paranoid Schizophrenia, My Label My Life,” to provide continuity.
Innocence Meets Vulnerability
How we started our relationship
I met Carol Xia Tian, meaning Summer, after a free lunchtime concert at the University of Southampton’s Turner Sims Concert Hall. We’d both gone down to the stage to examine the harpsichord that had been used…..
4. The most beautiful eyes I have ever seen
One day while on the bus to the University I started a conversation with a Chinese man, Ken, after noticing an unusual electronic gadget on his iPhone. He asked me if I knew where he could buy flowers for his young lady friend, Frances, the pianist who was going to perform that afternoon. At our destination, the University Highfield Interchange, we alighted from the bus in search of a…..
3. Gradually we drew closer
Soon after meeting Carol, she entered a music competition organised by, and for all, the Chinese students at the University. The initial rounds took place in a very large lecture theatre on campus, however, the final round was scheduled to take place at the large Odeon cinema complex in the city, in a private function room. I think there were over 200 contestants, whittled down to a short list of ten by the…..
2. We only had the opportunity to see one another
On the bus home, Carol used WeChat to link up by video with her parents in their apartment in Shanghai. Later she told me her mother was concerned because, at the age of 23, she still had no boyfriend. All her other friends of similar age back in China were already married and had started their families. I laughed, saying that she was still young. My advice would be that…..
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