Hilary McPheeBesprekingen
Auteur van Other People's Words
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The Conversations program is headlined as 'The Writer and the Prince', because Other People's Houses is the story of how McPhee was hired to help a Jordanian prince to write a book, an event which coincided with an abrupt change in her personal life. It's about a book project that doesn't see the light of day, and at the same time, about a life journey about starting again in your sixties. It's a cautionary tale, offering a frank insight about how even an enviably smart, savvy woman can delude herself into believing that what you want, is how things are, even in the face of evidence to the contrary. McPhee is upfront about not seeing the warning signs that all would not be well with the book, because she so badly needed the professional affirmation that the project could bring when the rest of her life was falling apart.
Other People's Houses is also a salutary tale for women of a certain age, because an abrupt change in our personal lives is what eventually happens to most of us. It is very common for women to become unpartnered late in life, and after a lifetime of being part of a couple, to have to learn to live alone.
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