Merry Christmas to you all

contact me on: benzo_70@yahoo.co.uk
Certainly interested and maybe competent enough.
Keep well and happy Christmas to you and family

The style of writing is a sort of triptych effect, some paragraphs weaving personal day to day experience with sometimes tortured memories of her upbringing and her family, especially her grandma. This is further woven into reflections on following the footsteps of Xuanzang. The literary device used made for slow reading but the last page and her final reflecrtions on her granny who had passed away long ago, had me in tears. Living in China now for nearly five years enriched the reading experience as it has with other history books.

Just a pity it is off the topic of this blog, modelling healthy sexuality for our youngsters when required. We are deeply sexual (not sex per se) whether we like it or not and I relate profoundly to children as a man. I cannot emulate my wife who also teaches, to whom the girls especially relate to in a way very different to me. continued…

Yhe author was born in 1952, the mother in 1931, and the grandmother in 1909.

In 1976 the author won a scholarship to study in England and has lived there ever since.

As you can see from the dates – most of “communism” was in the author’s own living memory.

It is the life of her grandmother, her mother and herself. They all lived together. Author and mother are still alive, and grandmother only died towards the end of the story.

Of her grandmother’s life before she was born?

The book “White Swans” is about what happened in China from before the Second World War and Communism to the deposition of the Gang of 4.

The author writes from first hand experience, and the story is harrowing.

From previous writing of yours, and this post, I get the impression that the Chinese are pulling your leg.

I recommend you read it for your own sake – to help your writing.

But if you prefer to skim the surface and play the buffoon – it is no skin off my nose, but don’t expect your writing to sell.