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A Mother’s Love
Thirteen years ago today, I became a mum for the first time. I was nineteen years old, newly married and, until my daughter came along, thought of myself as very grown up and responsible. But I will always remember the feeling of sheer panic that completely overtook me when I got home and my beloved had to return to work, leaving me alone with our baby for the first time… She was tiny. Born at just 6lbs 6oz, her weight had dropped to just below 6lbs before we brought her home. She had the most perfect olive skin and a tiny rosebud mouth. Precious jet black kiss-curls covered her head,…
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Summer Read-Along Roundup – Post 2
Following on from my 2nd post on our Summer Read-Along book, Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time-Traveler’s Wife, here are excerpts from others who are participating by reading and sharing their thoughts… The station doesn’t look like much, but a railway is a network that can take a person to remarkable destinations from the most unlikely of starting points. You, for example – who could possibly have imagined? Not me, obviously, but you took precautions just in case. I wonder, from an uncrossable distance of time and place: if I’d found out what you were planning, if I’d got there in time, if I’d asked you to stay, would you have come…
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Mrs Darling’s Lament
[This is a post for The Time-Traveler’s Wife Summer Read-Along – please add your link to your Summer Read-Along post in the box below, leave comments and join in the conversation!] ‘Goodness, Clare, why in the world would you want to marry such a person? Think of the children you would have! Popping into next week and back before breakfast!’ I laugh. ‘But it will be exciting! Like Mary Poppins, or Peter Pan.’ She squeezes my hands just a little. ‘Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it’s always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to…
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Summer Read-Along Roundup – Post 1
On Friday I shared the first of my 4 posts for our Time-Traveler’s Wife Summer Read-Along, and today I want to share with you all the wonderful posts and responses that have been contributed by some of those joining me on this journey. They are wonderfully wide ranging exploring personal time-lines, the specifics of time travel, the search for cosmic balance and the presence/absence dichotomy of social media and blogging. Please do go and visit them and join in the conversations! My 17-year-old self, were she to time travel 20 years into the future, would be devastated I’m sure to discover she became so pragmatic, so bidden to the present…
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We Are All Time-Travelers
[This is a post for The Time-Traveler’s Wife Summer Read-Along – please add your link to your Summer Read-Along post in the box below, leave comments and join in the conversation!] The whole concept behind The Time-Traveler’s Wife has always fascinated me. To have the ability to move forward and backwards in time is a common trope of science fiction, but the focus on moving back and forth along your own time-line was new to me. The way in which Henry is compelled to revisit certain points in his past over and over again strikes me as simultaneously a blessing and a curse. I think this is probably most obvious…
