Rogue's Angels Present: Alice, A Memoir by Alice Gilmore

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Alice, a Memoir

by Alice Gilmore 

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GENRE: Non-fiction

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INTERVIEW:

Do you ever wish you were someone else? Who?

Nobody else. My daydreams and fantasies have always been about me in such-and-such a situation, never about me being someone else in that situation. That has run through my whole life. A form of egotism some might say. When I was a young girl I often imagined that I was a boy, but always me as a boy. I don’t think that was because I had any desire to change my sex or any inclinations towards homosexuality but because so much of what I read or saw then showed boys as having many  more opportunities and I wanted that, although my adult life took me in strangely traditional path in many ways.

What did you do on your last birthday?

Spent it with my mother and two of my children, now all in their twenties. The other was in America. One other important person was present.

What part of the writing process do you dread?

I suppose it is reading what I have written on the previous day or days, and realising it is no good and – worse still – not knowing how to put it right or even improve it a bit. I read what I’ve written too much I think. I should write it and pass it on quicker. But going back over what I’ve written is often an excuse for not getting on with the next new bit that could be troubling me.

Do you ever suffer from writer’s block? If so, what do you do about it?

No. What I have just described above might be a form of writers’ block (should the possessive apostrophe be where I’ve put it or in the singular. Is it one writer at a time being blocked or the whole lot of us?) but I don’t think so. Since I have only written the one book (my memoir) I have never had writer’s’ (tee hee) block because I have not been inventing, simply recalling and then trying to set it down well.

Tell us about your latest release.

It is this book, my memoir. I don’t think I can add to what has been said about it, and will be said about it, by others. Perhaps when they have sounded off I might add some correctional words of my own to the babble. Now that my husband is gone and my children are grown I might well try a novel. A true work of imagination that will grip me – and I hope future readers.

BLURB:

Few, if anyone, could have had a life like Alice Gilmore. It was almost unbelievable yet carried on under the cover of a respectable middle-class existence.

You might strongly disapprove of what she did, but Alice was determined. She overcame insurmountable obstacles to keep the love she longed for.

Her single-minded fight to live out her love makes a gripping, riveting story that one eminent literary person called ‘staggeringly readable’. It is shocking. Her methods will upset some, but are you with her or against her? Your decision.

This is no misery memoir. It’s a story told with joy, wit and fervour – the astonishing story of the overwhelming love Alice Gilmour was determined to live out.

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EXCERPT:

I am going to tell you our story, my darlings. It is really only for you three and one other (you know who) but I can’t help hoping that the world will read it, which is why I shall probably publish it. But not for some years. When you’re fully grown up and have flown the nest. God knows what they will make of it, the world I mean, whoever they are, but I am not suggesting that any rules or taboos should be changed by our story, or new rules made. Leave all that alone. Our story, perhaps I should say my story, just is. You could tritely call it the exception that proves the rule. Perhaps that is just what it is: unique. I doubt that but it is certainly extraordinary. I have carefully chosen those words. Any old event of yawning banality is called ‘amazing’, ‘fantastic’, ‘unbelievable’, ‘fabulous’ in our current jargon. Whatever else people may call my story it is certainly extraordinary. 

It is, above all, a love story, an all-consuming love story, though I have never felt consumed by love, rather continually renewed. But isn’t that what love should do to you? Consume you and renew you constantly like the phoenix. And it brought with it another constant emotion: fear. And pain. The fear of pain. The fear of the pain of losing it, this wonderful state. The word love doesn’t fully express what I/we felt. Another word that is more or less totally debased.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

If you want to know about my life and background read this book. I can scarcely add to what I have written about myself in there. I earnestly hope that the rest of my life is too uneventful to even consider writing anything else, I am no novelist. The life I have described was full enough and rich enough for me. God knows what I would come out with if I had to invent. If you find you need a good chef I shall consider anything not too energetic – which rules out most jobs in the kitchen.

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