Still Maturing

About the Book

After describing in detail living in a small English village, Patricia goes on to relate an incident involving her father in World War II in which she secretly listens to him talking to his friend, Jim, after the war had ended.

 She was nearly twelve years old. What she heard was so shocking and she was so traumatised that in the morning it had all been forgotten.

 Now known as ‘Repressed memory’, it surfaced in 1974 as an audio visual phenomenon in her mind.  She was treated as having a mental illness, and describes how it affected her.

About the Author

Patricia, born in London in 1933 went to live with her grandmother at the outbreak of World War 11. She returned to the London area with her husband Peter and they had two daughters. In 1965 they emigrated to Australia and two years later a son was born. After thirty years of marriage she and Peter divorced and Patricia moved to Glenelg, a thriving tourist city in summer and a quiet village-type place in winter. She attended the ‘College for Seniors’, first joining ‘Creative Writing’, and then the ‘Autobiography’ class.