Kate, a forty-seven year old mother, securely employed and living in the Perth suburbs, thought she knew who she was.
However, a conversation with her sister caused Kate to question the truth about herself, shattering many of her long-held assumptions.
Thus began a journey of discovery, and learning how to deal with a simultaneously painful, frightening, and liberating new personal reality.
Excerpt from "Author's Note"
......While typing the first draft of this memoir it felt like I was writing a letter to a far-away friend and sharing a very persoanl secret with them. This gave me the idea of making my story into a traditional handwritten letter of sorts, using my own writing rather than a computer-generated font. At first it seemed like just another of my crazy ideas - and I've had a few - so I rather reluctantly rejected it, as it didn't appear to make any sense. After all, there must be a good reason why other authors haven't already done it. But the recurring echoes of a distressing incident which affected me very deeply made me change my mind and I decided to follow my heart rather than my head......
.....The first drafts of this memoir were typed on my computer, as it's much neater and easier to make numerous changes on a screen than it is on paper. Handwriting a manuscript soon results in the page resembling a literary war zone as unsatisfactory sentences are scribbled out, new versions squeezed into tiny gaps, and paragraphs re-arranged. Luckily, by the time I had stretched my laptop's patience to the limit with umpteen drafts of my manuscript, I was ready to transcribe it onto paper with a pen.
Once I had removed the intermediary of the keyboard I felt more tangibly connected with what I was writing, physically forming the words and sentences rather than delegating the task to a computer. And as I had hoped it would, it felt as if I was penning a handwritten letter to my readers rather than just typing it out in some anonymous font.
So this resultant tome is the love child of a conventional book and an old-fashioned letter. Hopefully it has inherited some of the strengths of each - the book's capability of reaching a wide audience, while keeping the extra degree of personal connection found in a handwritten letter.
