"The present colours the past"... ????

An off-beat choice of reading for me,a novel "Tatty" by Christine Dwyer Hickey,I purchased from a book sale fundraising event that needed support.

It has taken me the whole week to reach the end of the story that transpired to be a heartbreaking tale set in Dublin, S. Ireland, about a tough childhood. It takes place between 1964 to 1974.

Tatty's unpredictable reception at home, her home life and her underlying yearning to share the reality of how she is actually treated and made to feel (which leads her to persist in being creative with the truth) left me pondering, to write such a moving and candid account, the author surely must has lived and breathed such experiences first-hand.

Even at the end, it took a major incident involving her Mother to generate a promise of change by the parents,which I believe would never be forthcoming. In a domestic situation such as presented in this novel,I could only hope that in time, Tatty would allow, "the present to colour the past"(Freud)

Next week calls for some light reading!