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And she befriends Charmian who lived above Erica's family in London, we soon discover.
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And Charmian becomes a mother figure to Erica throughout the book.
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Look, I love the writing in the book.
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I thought it was fantastic.
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And I could wander the alleyways of Hydra with Polly Sampson for a very long time.
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She writes beautifully of the island.
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And Erica is a
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a very compassionate, strong narrator.
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The thing that I kept coming back to though was that I was privy to these fictionalised conversations between all these well-known writers, which I think she does.
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It's a wonderful job she does.
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I don't admire having to try and make sense of it.
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As a writer, I wouldn't like to have tried to do this, but she does it brilliantly, I've got to say.
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Yeah, I guess it is because to me, if we look at Charmian and George, George is given the role in the novel of saying all the nasty stuff.
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So he comes across as being very bitter, very selfish, and I'm not denying he probably was that, but you juxtapose that against Charmian's heroic multitasking.
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She's a mother, a writer, an editor, a co-writer, a cook, a cleaner, and a confidant to Erica.
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And she is a wonderful character, obviously.
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And if anything, I hope this book gets lots of people to read Peel Me a Lotus and Mermaid Singing because it forced me to reread those books.
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And they are just the most wonderful books ever.
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You know, 50 years before A Year in Provence and Eat, Pray, Love and all those other living in a foreign country books, there was Charmian Clift on an island in Greece living with the locals and writing beautifully about that.
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So I hope this book does that at least.