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21 Feb 2012 10:52 #76578
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Four years ago trainee lawyer Alexandra Singer was in a coma on the brink of death
after being struck down with a rare disease....
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21 Feb 2012 10:53 #76579
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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:
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21 Feb 2012 10:54 #76580
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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.
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21 Feb 2012 10:55 #76581
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Alexandra Singer said she was not sure if she had "dreamt" about her novel in her coma
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21 Feb 2012 10:56 #76582
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http://www.alexandrasinger.co.uk/storage/thumbnail%20cover%20tazi.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1324981594367
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21 Feb 2012 10:58 #76583
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<blockquote>" Creating this world in the middle of my despair - I was in hospital for two years
- actually gave me a reason to get upâ€</blockquote>
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21 Feb 2012 11:23 #76592
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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.
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