![]() ![]() It’s important to know where you’re from so you know where you’re going. My family were refugees and often told stories to remind themselves where they had come from. She had a fairy-tale childhood in Baghdad, which went wrong: there was terrible persecution of the Jews and they tried to escape but they got stopped at a checkpoint, then imprisoned. Cold Comfort Farm’s Flora was my guide to the art of being single and happy. The less talented Brontë, the other Brontë. ![]() Tragic, virginal, sweet, stoic, selfless, Anne. ![]() Cathy and Heathcliff were my template for a love affair. The Blurb (from Goodreads): Anne Brontë is the forgotten Brontë sister, overshadowed by her older siblings - virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell. Lucy Honeychurch gave me ideas about living an artist’s life. Scarlett O’Hara gave me courage to fight for independence. Anne Of Green Gables taught me that imagination might not be a terrible flaw. The Little Mermaid faced obstacles in her quest to marry a prince. Finding the Middle Eastern heroine Scheherazade was a way to come back to that. But I’m very close to my family and proud of being an Iraqi-Jew. The women tended to get married early and be housewives – I didn’t want to do that. They showed me there were other worlds, other ways to be. ![]()
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