Angela Bowne

That was the first fantasy fiction book I'd read.

And I thought I will do something different.

An important part of it was the fact that the asylum had a labyrinth, but also she lost her mother very early.

Her mother had left the family when I think Erica was two, later drowned, and there's a lot of death in the book.

Her father was obviously very difficult, possibly a talented psychiatrist, but very difficult for them to deal with.

And he ultimately met his end by a patient hacking him to death in the asylum.

So it was a tragic upbringing.

She got on well with her one sibling at that stage, but later on, there was a rift between them.

So it was a very difficult childhood, difficult family background.

Oh, I have a long time ago.

What this book did bring back to me very strongly was Jung.

I haven't read any Jung for quite some time, but it seemed to me to be an absolutely Jungian book in so many ways from the

numerous and important dreams in it.

One dream being the making of a labyrinth, which Erica follows through and makes the dream come true.

What I remember from my reading of Jung's, the only true journey in life is the journey to oneself, which is what Erica is doing.

And the other is the importance of the retelling of dreams, that the

I think Freud thought the content of the dream as you dream it is the most important.

Jung thought the retelling of the dream and how we change it as we retell it was important.

And of course, Erika retells at least 10 dreams.

Could I first say that the building is for Jungian.