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Tea At The Grand Tazi - ketchim - 02-21-2012

A feel good story for the Girls  :kiss:


Re: Tea At The Grand Tazi - ketchim - 02-21-2012

Four years ago trainee lawyer Alexandra Singer was in a coma on the brink of death

after being struck down with a rare disease....


Re: Tea At The Grand Tazi - ketchim - 02-21-2012

But next month her debut novel is published -

a story which had been wiped from her memory by an attack of :

the autoimmune disease cerebral lupus... :lipsrsealed:


Re: Tea At The Grand Tazi - ketchim - 02-21-2012

Tea At The Grand Tazi, inspired by a trip she had taken to Morocco :

had already been sketched out as an embryonic novel when Ms Singer

was left in a coma for three months by the illness.


Re: Tea At The Grand Tazi - ketchim - 02-21-2012

Alexandra Singer said she was not sure if she had "dreamt" about her novel in her coma

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Re: Tea At The Grand Tazi - ketchim - 02-21-2012

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Re: Tea At The Grand Tazi - ketchim - 02-21-2012

<blockquote>" Creating this world in the middle of my despair - I was in hospital for two years

- actually gave me a reason to get up”</blockquote>


Re: Tea At The Grand Tazi - ketchim - 02-21-2012

Okay Girls , anodda book for y'all to read :  :wink:

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Re: Tea At The Grand Tazi - ketchim - 02-21-2012

Here's a bunch of young scavengers and thieves, ravaged by rats and

high on white correction fluid, who live, work and die quickly.

They are the young flotsam that India breathlessly parades as its demographic dividend

when, in reality, the children, tired and brutalised :

are already past their sell-by-date.