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Christine Cohen Park
1953 In My Father's House XV - Hanover Ward: Canvassing
On the walls of the Labour Party constituency headquarters is a blown-up map of the area with red and blue crosses marked against the...
Christine Cohen Park
Apr 101 min read
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In My Father's House XIV - A Nice Quiet Companionable Time
Surprisingly enough I did feel better the following morning. I bounded out of bed and went to check on how Mustard was getting on in the...
Christine Cohen Park
Mar 201 min read
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1953 In My Father's House XIII - The Chasm Between Home and Away
I’m on the train to Paddington, hamster in cage in the rack above my head and Belinda with hers is in her folks’ car on the way to...
Christine Cohen Park
Mar 111 min read
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In My Father’s House XII - Till We Two Meet Again
My father could also be an embarrassment. When we took off for Bristol the following Monday morning in my uncle’s grey Austin, he would...
Christine Cohen Park
Feb 201 min read
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In My Father's House XI - Houses, Hamsters, and Robert Browning
The story so far: Aged ten and a half, in the first days of January 1953, leaving my mother and siblings behind in South Africa, I...
Christine Cohen Park
Jan 161 min read
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Read my Memoir on Substack
Now over 700 readers of my memoir "1953 In My Father's House" on Substack. If you're not one of them - stert here: ...
Christine Cohen Park
Jan 71 min read
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1953 In My Father’s House X - Half-term: First Day Back
In Badminton’s reserved carriages of the train pulling into Paddington there was general jubilation, spirits were running high. The doors...
Christine Cohen Park
Dec 17, 20241 min read
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1953 in My Father’s House IX - The Rough Patch & the Wild Patch
Boarding school was a foreign country: the distance from Brighton seemed equal to the distance from Cape Town. As Margaret Atwood...
Christine Cohen Park
Dec 6, 20242 min read
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1953 in My Father’s House VIII - What Is It to be a True Socialist? Further Education of a Young Mind
The day for boarding school arrived. We set off straight after breakfast in my father’s highly-polished racing green Bentley. Griff, with...
Christine Cohen Park
Nov 26, 20241 min read
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1953 in My Father’s House VII - The Jive and the Tote
Carole came to tea. Mrs Ash and Fay decided that we would have it out in the summerhouse – if the children were to make a mess, then not...
Christine Cohen Park
Nov 26, 20242 min read
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1953 in My Father’s House VI - Last Weekend Before School
Dear Readers, this is my continuing memoir of arriving from South Africa, aged ten and a half, to live with my father (who I barely knew)...
Christine Cohen Park
Nov 26, 20241 min read
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1953 in My Father's House - V The Fight and its Aftermath
The fight took place one January afternoon with a cold wind blowing off the sea. When it bit into us you could smell the salt. There were...
Christine Cohen Park
Nov 18, 20241 min read
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1953 in My Father’s House - IV Feeling My Way
Other writers talk of fully entering the world of adult literature and consuming volumes from public libraries, or should they be lucky...
Christine Cohen Park
Sep 18, 20241 min read
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I'll be giving a reading from my new novel at Needlewriters, Lewes on 13th June
The next Needlewriters evening will be on Thursday 13th June 2024, featuring Charlotte Gann (poetry), Christine Cohen Park (prose),...
Christine Cohen Park
Jun 4, 20241 min read
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1953 In My Father's House - III Doors Opening and Closing
Breakfast arrangements in my father’s house were a surprising affair. The first person to arrive was his youngest brother, my uncle...
Christine Cohen Park
May 19, 20241 min read
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Here's the second instalment of my memoir - 1953 In My Father's House. II Introducing a new character
So there I was, on the threshold of my father’s house in the first days of 1953. It is situated on a wide avenue that divides Brighton...
Christine Cohen Park
May 12, 20241 min read
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In conversation with Sorrel Pitts, the author of Broken Shadows, on her publishing journey
The author Sorrel Pitts came to my attention back in February, when she wrote an article for BookBrunch about her thirty-year journey to...
Christine Cohen Park
May 8, 20243 min read
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Read the beginning of Christine's Memoir - 1953 In My Father's House
One well-trodden route a writer may take while awaiting answers from publishers and agents is, get on with the next book. A strategy...
Christine Cohen Park
Apr 22, 20241 min read
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Christine is giving a reading from her new novel Bye Bye Apartheid RoadÂ
Christine is giving a reading from her new novel Bye Bye Apartheid Road at the next Needlewriters event: 6.30 on June 13th, at the John...
Christine Cohen Park
Apr 16, 20241 min read
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Anita Mason's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography written by Christine
Mason, Anita Frances (1942–2020), novelist, journalist, and essayist, was born at Bristol Maternity Hospital, 50 Southwell Street,...
Christine Cohen Park
Apr 16, 20241 min read
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