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'What happened next? What happened to the boys? Once upon a lifetime, twenty-five years ago or more, I wrote a book called A Foreign Wife. In it I recorded my experiences during my first five years in the Peloponnesian village to which I had unexpectedly migrated in 1980. Life in the Peloponnese continues to delight and challenge Gillian Bouras: Seeing and Believing resumes the narrative as her sons create their own families and time delivers a fresh crop of joys and heartaches, to which she tries to adjust. Acutely responsive to what she calls the conspiracy of beauty in Greece, she celebrates the natural world in prose that indicates a lifelong engagement with words. Global events send her to historians for enlightenment, while tragedy closer to home fire, unexpected death prompts reflection on the solace of contrasting creeds. In between she observes the human comedy with dry humour.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: For my children and grandchildren : Remember the rock whence thou wast last hewn. And remembering Aaron, my mentor.
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The Conspiracy of Beauty in Greece
2015
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— Appears in: Australian Women’s Book Review , vol. 27 no. 1 / 2 2015-2016; (p. 9-13) 'Seeing and Believing, Gillian Bouras’s sixth book drawing on her experiences and observations of life in general, and life in rural Greece in particular, offers fresh pleasures and perspectives both to her first-time readers and her long-time admirers. That it succeeds in doing so is due to the quality of her writing, which has never been better, and her perspicacity and capacity for reflection, which have never been more compelling.' (Introduction)
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The Conspiracy of Beauty in Greece
2015
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Women’s Book Review , vol. 27 no. 1 / 2 2015-2016; (p. 9-13) 'Seeing and Believing, Gillian Bouras’s sixth book drawing on her experiences and observations of life in general, and life in rural Greece in particular, offers fresh pleasures and perspectives both to her first-time readers and her long-time admirers. That it succeeds in doing so is due to the quality of her writing, which has never been better, and her perspicacity and capacity for reflection, which have never been more compelling.' (Introduction)
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