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Can I read Past Forgetting : My Memory Lost and Found on EtoBox?
Past Forgetting : My Memory Lost and Found by Jill Robinson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Past Forgetting : My Memory Lost and Found about?
A love story, a mystery, and a memory guide, Past Forgetting shows a writer's determination to re-create her life.Jill Robinson, novelist and author of Bed/Time/Story, wakes from a coma to discover she's lost her memory and just about any sense of who she was.And is.She likes the look of the man standing next to her bed, but doesn't recognize that he's her husband, Stuart. What matters is that she feels safe around him. As she searches the house for her children, she is reminded that her son and daughter are both grown with families of their own--how well did she ever know them? Can You make up for a past you don't really remember?It is Stuart who begins to fill in the details for Jill, including the fact that she's a well-known writer, although when she meets with her doctors, they say she may never write again.Against all odds, Jill Robinson retrieved her unique writing voice, and in this engaging memoir shows how she does it. She takes us with her on her exploration of'tlie connections between memory and creativity, celebrity and anonymity, and loss and discovery. From her first tentative steps outside her house on Wimpole Street to London's sleek West End. From a trip to Oxford
Who reads Past Forgetting : My Memory Lost and Found?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jill Robinson
- Publisher
- HarperCollins e-books
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060194307
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 2.85 / 5 (14 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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