Eliza Graham's Blog, page 5
May 9, 2012
Interview with me on writing The History Room
Fellow Macmillan author, Deborah Swift, has interviewed me on her blog.
http://deborahswift.blogspot.co.uk/
http://deborahswift.blogspot.co.uk/
April 30, 2012
Jubilee on Amazon and iBookstore at 89p
For a limited period my publishers, Macmillan, are able to offer a special discount on Jubilee Kindle downloads. If you haven't read Jubilee, this could be the most cost-effective and quick way ever: just 89p.">
April 27, 2012
Reborn dolls
Reborn dolls: stranger than life
A couple of articles in national newspapers in past months have discussed the strange thing that is the reborn doll. For those who don't know what a reborn doll is, take a look at the photo in the Mail and decide whether you would honestly have known whether that baby was real or not. Reborn dolls are sometimes bought by women who have suffered a cot death or stillbirth or other trauma.
In another article, The Guardian's Zoe William describes how a reborn doll taken into an old people's home calms and soothes some of the women. There's obviously a deep need for women to hold infants in their arms and if a real baby isn't there, the doll can carry out this role. All perfectly harmless; more than this: a good thing, perhaps.
And yet many people find the dolls sinister. They are certainly fascinating.
A reborn doll plays a small but key role in The History Room, which will be published on May 10th.
The History Room
A couple of articles in national newspapers in past months have discussed the strange thing that is the reborn doll. For those who don't know what a reborn doll is, take a look at the photo in the Mail and decide whether you would honestly have known whether that baby was real or not. Reborn dolls are sometimes bought by women who have suffered a cot death or stillbirth or other trauma.
In another article, The Guardian's Zoe William describes how a reborn doll taken into an old people's home calms and soothes some of the women. There's obviously a deep need for women to hold infants in their arms and if a real baby isn't there, the doll can carry out this role. All perfectly harmless; more than this: a good thing, perhaps.
And yet many people find the dolls sinister. They are certainly fascinating.
A reborn doll plays a small but key role in The History Room, which will be published on May 10th.
The History Room
