Between a Shadow and the Moon

The story came to her under convalescence from a long illness. She was born, the youngest of three on the outskirts of London in 1948. Her father, like his father before him, worked in the Bank of England: you can guess she was brought up with a particular veiw of the world. She went to public school, and it seemed like the future was cut out for her, so how did she end up in Denmark, feeing neither English or Danish? It began with an operation on her throat that left her with a semi-parallized voice, at a time when a girl is most sensitive. It followed with a move to the other side of London, where she was quickly brought down to earth. A degree at Bristol University should have set her up for a settled career, but the times were changing for her generation, and she was restless, and already felt like a foreigner to her background. We can get the feeling that it is her subconscious that has found a way for her to express her search for answers that cannot be found in book-learning: she uses a mere snail for her project. She too threw herself into the unknown, without a safety- line, and with no preconceptions of what she would find. Several trips over land to India showed her life's raw realities; in India a humanism and an awe of nature that has marked her ever since: the earth- bound natives and the grandeur of the Himalayas. It was there she met her husband-to-be: a Dane: a soul-mate. She has settled down now with two children; that are now grown, and are on their own journey of life. She is ultimately expressing her concern for the kind of world their children will inherit.