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Have a great time in Oz,’ called my teenage neighbour as he caught up with me. ‘My mate says the wildlife there is insane, spiders the size of dinner plates! See temple, I removed my hiking boots and placed them with the variety of flip-flops and trainers other visitors had left by the steps, then walked inside. The Emerald Buddha was supposed to be over
her words – as smooth and soft as cocoa butter. I knew they were just being kind, because I wasn’t blind as well as ugly – and I hated being patronised about my looks. Given I had Lucinda was born in Lisburn, County Down, and spent her first few years in the nearby village of Drumbeg. Her mother, Jane (nee Cottham), and great-aunt had been professional actors, her grandmother was an opera singer and her great-uncle was chief lighting designer at the Royal Opera House. In 1906, eighteen-year-old Kitty is coerced by her adulterous clergyman father into accompanying a wealthy lady from Scotland to Australia. There, Kitty is introduced to the Mercer family, who operate a lucrative pearl fishing business. Kitty soon discovers that in Australia, anybody “could reinvent themselves to be anyone they chose.” Like that great pile of junk I’d collected from scrapyards around London and housed in my studio at the apartment. I had spent weeks trying to work out exactly how all the pieces should be
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down, I came across an artist painting a watercolour. Watching him sitting at his easel reminded me of the nights I’d sat on Railay Beach in Krabi with my sketch pad and tin of paints, trying and felt things too . . . in my gut and in my dreams. Often it felt like my dreamtime was more real and vivid than when I was awake – a bit like watching a series on TV. Those were A hundred years earlier Kitty McBride, daughter of an Edinburgh clergyman, is given the opportunity to travel to Australia as the companion of the wealthy Mrs McCrombie. In Adelaide, her fate becomes entwined with Mrs McCrombie’s family, including the identical, yet very different, twin brothers: impetuous Drummond, and ambitious Andrew, the heir to a pearling fortune. with your brain, so you didn’t know who you were any more or how to please anyone, least of all yourself. That was what had happened to me on my art course. Which was why I’d left. Turning to writing, still as Lucinda Edmonds, she followed Lovers and Players with novels such as Hidden Beauty (1993), Enchanted (1994), Losing You (1997) and Playing with Fire (1998). Her 1988 marriage to the actor Owen Whittaker, whom she met while shooting a commercial, ended in divorce. In 2000, she married Stephen Riley, who had led a management buyout of the company that became Denby Pottery, and she took a 10-year break from writing to bring up their children.It’s been ages since I went there last, but I hear it’s huge now – maybe a couple of thousand people. My favourite place is Railay Beach in Krabi. It’s very Riley is survived by Stephen, their two children, Leonora and Kit, the two children of her first marriage, Harry and Bella, and three stepchildren, Olivia, William and Max, as well as her mother and her sister, Georgia. Many of the characters in ‘The Pearl Sister’ have more than one racial and national identity, such as CeCe, Ace, and Francis. How do they come to terms with their identities?
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