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First Weeks In NZ

I found out that you take yourself with you. My problems followed me. My insecurity didn’t change. I thought that by moving here my life would be totally transformed. It takes time to get used… 

The Ghost

My grandfather shot himself in a truck after driving away from my grandmother. The newspapers said he was suffering from what they called “morning sickness”, that was their word for it in those days. I… 

Mothers Flee

Mothers flee from hospital blaze. Twelve mothers evacuated from the South Ward when the fire broke out in an adjoining room at Fant Lane Maternity Home, Maidstone, late on Wednesday night. Two fire appliances from… 

New Zealand

I was four months pregnant when I left the UK for New Zealand in 1998, running from addiction, toward something I couldn’t name. I didn’t know then that the real story wasn’t about my escape.…