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Larissa Matharu
Dear Penny
Thank you for your question regarding Telling Stories. Herewith is the answer from the author herself, Valerie Windsor!
Best regards Larissa Matharu
Hello Penny.
I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed TELLING STORIES.
In answer to your question - not stupid at all! I'll try and clarify It. So here goes!
Throughout the novel I've referenced the fairy story convention of three sisters, and indeed there is a dressing table mirror in Margaret's room at the chateau which allows her to see three images of herself. At the end, she decides to do the right thing and confess to the police. She promises to come back, but not as Margaret Davison nor as Chris Masbou but as whoever her future self - [after the prison sentence] - will be. So the three sisters are actually the three aspects of herself - her past, her present and her future. Not sisters in the real sense but just one person. I'm not sure if that works but I hope it makes more sense to you now.
All the very best
Val Windsor
Thank you for your question regarding Telling Stories. Herewith is the answer from the author herself, Valerie Windsor!
Best regards Larissa Matharu
Hello Penny.
I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed TELLING STORIES.
In answer to your question - not stupid at all! I'll try and clarify It. So here goes!
Throughout the novel I've referenced the fairy story convention of three sisters, and indeed there is a dressing table mirror in Margaret's room at the chateau which allows her to see three images of herself. At the end, she decides to do the right thing and confess to the police. She promises to come back, but not as Margaret Davison nor as Chris Masbou but as whoever her future self - [after the prison sentence] - will be. So the three sisters are actually the three aspects of herself - her past, her present and her future. Not sisters in the real sense but just one person. I'm not sure if that works but I hope it makes more sense to you now.
All the very best
Val Windsor
Larissa Matharu
The woolly fog enveloping the path obscured the thirsty female vampire as Daisy innocently played with the Autumn leaves.
Larissa Matharu
Narnia. A good white witch or good Queen in Narnia,
Or the Agatha Christie world, I would be one of her amateur detectives.
Or the Agatha Christie world, I would be one of her amateur detectives.
Larissa Matharu
Agatha Christie and Michel Houllebecq.
Larissa Matharu
This is a TRUE story, I was boarding a bus one Winter evening, when an old lady with white hair, sitting in the front of the bus, gestured to me: she shook her head side to side emphatically and held a finger out in front of her face and shook it sideways and mouthed NO; she was warning me NOT to board this bus!!! I got off the bus and waited fifteen minutes for the next one.
I have no idea what would have happened to me had I boarded that bus but she obviously saved my life. Was she really physically there on the bus, could other passengers see her, was she an angel, a ghost, a deceased relative in the after life, or me in the future, warning myself?
I will always ponder these questions, as she saved my life that day. I had never seen her before.
I have no idea what would have happened to me had I boarded that bus but she obviously saved my life. Was she really physically there on the bus, could other passengers see her, was she an angel, a ghost, a deceased relative in the after life, or me in the future, warning myself?
I will always ponder these questions, as she saved my life that day. I had never seen her before.
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