Never On Sunday : A novel by Brenda Gunning : Preface
Preface If there is but one thing that you take from me, one piece of advice that I can give, that you will receive without question let it be this – don’t go back. Whether in your mind or in your physical being, for whatever you remember is not there. Perhaps it never was. Perhaps memories do not exist and those thoughts we keep preserved behind a protective film of the past are but wild imaginings of an ageing mind For I know that your mind will cruelly twist your carefully kept images. It will turn the roads you knew to dead ends, cul de sacs to your truths. It will obliterate the landmarks you knew so well and rebuild them in a way that is un-recognisable to you. You may have been torn down and rebuilt, ...