Alice,
a Memoir
by
Alice Gilmore
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GENRE:
Non-fiction
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BLURB:
Few,
if anyone, could have had a life like Alice Gilmore. It was almost
unbelievable yet carried on under the cover of a respectable
middle-class existence.
You
might strongly disapprove of what she did, but Alice was determined.
She overcame insurmountable obstacles to keep the love she longed
for.
Her
single-minded fight to live out her love makes a gripping, riveting
story that one eminent literary person called ‘staggeringly
readable’. It is shocking. Her methods will upset some, but are you
with her or against her? Your decision.
This
is no misery memoir. It’s a story told with joy, wit and fervour –
the astonishing story of the overwhelming love Alice Gilmour was
determined to live out.
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Excerpt:
I am
going to tell you our story, my darlings. It is really only for you
three and one other (you know who) but I can’t help hoping that the
world will read it, which is why I shall probably publish it. But not
for some years. When you’re fully grown up and have flown the nest.
God knows what they will make of it, the world I mean, whoever they
are, but I am not suggesting that any rules or taboos should be
changed by our story, or new rules made. Leave all that alone. Our
story, perhaps I should say my story, just is. You could tritely call
it the exception that proves the rule. Perhaps that is just what it
is: unique. I doubt that but it is certainly extraordinary. I have
carefully chosen those words. Any old event of yawning banality is
called ‘amazing’, ‘fantastic’, ‘unbelievable’, ‘fabulous’
in our current jargon. Whatever else people may call my story it is
certainly extraordinary.
It is,
above all, a love story, an all-consuming love story, though I have
never felt consumed by love, rather continually renewed. But isn’t
that what love should do to you? Consume you and renew you constantly
like the phoenix. And it brought with it another constant emotion:
fear. And pain. The fear of pain. The fear of the pain of losing it,
this wonderful state. The word love doesn’t fully express what I/we
felt. Another word that is more or less totally debased.
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AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
If you
want to know about my life and background read this book. I can
scarcely add to what I have written about myself in there. I
earnestly hope that the rest of my life is too uneventful to even
consider writing anything else, I am no novelist. The life I have
described was full enough and rich enough for me. God knows what I
would come out with if I had to invent. If you find you need a good
chef I shall consider anything not too energetic – which rules out
most jobs in the kitchen.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/100110001-alice-gilmore
https://www.facebook.com/alice.gilmore.92775
https://twitter.com/AlicetheWife1
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3 comments:
Thank you for hosting today.
I enjoyed the tour, thanks for sharing :)
Thanks for hosting my book, Alice
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