Bøger af Margaret Clarke

Are You Averill? is a moving account of the search by an adopted child for her birth-parents. At almost sixty, her adoptive parents now dead, Margaret has a strong desire to find out about her origins. Information available on the Internet allows her to trace her birth-mother. After their emotional first meeting where she learns she has half-brothers, mother and daughter wish to continue their association. Margaret learns her birth-father was a Polish airman during the Second World War. Although vowing not to trace him Margaret is overcome by curiosity and so begins the search for her father which leads to the discovery of siblings in America. We all have a desire to know who we are, where we come from. Not all searches into the past are successful but this heart-warming tale of joy and tragedy told with warmth and humour will spur anyone wanting to make that journey for themselves.

Someone has To Love Her is a family saga. Elizabeth, born a year before the outbreak of World War 2 is brought up in wartime Sheffield. Tragically both her parents have died by 1947. Her grandparents and her aunts give her a secure upbringing. But there are occasions when she is difficult to love at least by her family. Becoming pregnant whilst studying at university alters the course of Elizabeth's life. Giles, her son, is a troubled soul but is able to find direction to his life. On marrying Angela he become a step-father to Jenny. Jenny's upbringing is marred through witnessing her father's violent treatment of her mother. But Jenny will provide a twist to the saga when she finds love. Her own romantic connections will shockingly bring events back to Elizabeth and her family. Set in Sheffield and Nottingham the novel evokes a sense of place and time.

How does the imagination entwine the shreds of memory of family, place and culture to root a self in the fluid experience of the present? Daughter, wife, mother, teacher, writer and academic, Helen Buss/Margaret Clarke has lived in many parts of Canada and writes from a life of multiple perspectives full of contradictory loyalties and obligations.