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Today is my stop on the Random Things blog tour for In Memory of Us by Jacqueline Roy.
Selina and Zora are twins known as Selzora. They were joined at birth and separated. Growing up in London in the 1950s and 1960s, they are fiercely close but also yearn for independence.
Jumping forward decades, we now meet Selina in her seventies and living with the early stages of dementia. Selena is desperate to remember everything and to untangle the events that changed the life of her and her twin sister.
When she reconnects with childhood friend Lydia, she thinks this may help bring past events to life. However, it seems clear straight away that Lydia is hiding something.
This is such a moving and beautifully written book that delicately tackles dementia’s
I will be looking out for more books by this author.
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About the Author
Jacqueline was born and raised in London. Her father was Jamaican and her mother was English and she comes from a family of writers. She hated the pressure to conform at school and left early, so she did her degrees as a mature student and moved to Manchester to take up a full-time teaching post at Manchester Metropolitan University. She lectured in English for many years, specialising in postcolonial literatures. She also taught creative writing at MMU’s Writing School. She is particularly interested in exploring racial identities and the ways in which those who are marginalised find strategies for fighting back. She is now a full-time writer and has produced fiction for adults and children.
