Ask the Author: Keziah Shepherd
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Keziah Shepherd
There were pickets up at the hospital in Bradford because the staff were not being paid enough and my friend, who was a nurse, went to support them and was surprised, on driving up the hill to the hospital, to see a woman in a long dress and wearing a big Victorian hat: 'Odd,' she thought, 'maybe she's part of a protest'. Sipping her hot drink out on the picket, she asked someone on the picket why people were dressing up in Victorian dresses and the person went pale and said "you've just see Annie" and my friend heard how the hospital was previously a Victorian workhouse and Annie was one of its occupants and still roamed the grounds, 150 years later....
Keziah Shepherd
The incredible dream world of Emma Tennant, created in her 'Hotel de Dream' She enters the sleeping minds of her characters who live in a hotel. Their inner dream worlds hold captivating stories, and as the book moves on we discover that the dreams begin to seep into the heads of characters in the next door room.
I love recording dreams and it fascinates me how dreams tell such wonderful stories, almost as if the dream wants to keep you sleeping on in suspense
I love recording dreams and it fascinates me how dreams tell such wonderful stories, almost as if the dream wants to keep you sleeping on in suspense
Keziah Shepherd
I've been enjoying the works of Somerset Maugham. A Painted Veil and On Human Bondage. His observations of human psychology are so well recorded and he so well tunes into the motivations behind his characters. A Moon and Sixpence was also an incredible read, roughly based on the life of the painter Gauguin.
Keziah Shepherd
We are all born with something to resolve and it becomes clear early in life those things we must deal with. Each person has a unique task. But I would think for me that thing was 'love': that huge word, has been both baffling and nurturing and is, for us, as human beings a dilemma but also a solution that can take us from our ego and beyond, from a world of war to a world of peace.
Keziah Shepherd
There are two fictional couples that I like: the heroine and Max de Winter in Du Maurier's Rebecca AND Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester.
The reason for choosing these two is because they are rather similar. Both couples are very broken and dysfunctional inside from the start of their initial attractions. Rebecca's heroine is inadequate, insecure and totally unable to believe she might be worthy of real love. Jane Eyre has been starved of love since the very beginning and these books gradually reveal, through an almost painful discovery though misreadings, doubts and wrong turns, that there really is love. It is through the process of the loving that these couples allow deep inner wounds and injuries from a lifetime, start to rise up and heal, which is what real loving is all about.
The reason for choosing these two is because they are rather similar. Both couples are very broken and dysfunctional inside from the start of their initial attractions. Rebecca's heroine is inadequate, insecure and totally unable to believe she might be worthy of real love. Jane Eyre has been starved of love since the very beginning and these books gradually reveal, through an almost painful discovery though misreadings, doubts and wrong turns, that there really is love. It is through the process of the loving that these couples allow deep inner wounds and injuries from a lifetime, start to rise up and heal, which is what real loving is all about.
Keziah Shepherd
Hi! Good to be curious! This is also my great-grandfather's name, origin in Derbyshire! They were a family of farmers. It is quite a well known name there. Perhaps, long long time ago we are related! Hezekiah is a lovely name, never heard of it before. My first name, Keziah, is a biblical name, named after my great grandmother.
Keziah Shepherd
Psychology books on attachment theory
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