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Jane Eales

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London, The United Kingdom

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http://www.middleharbourpress.com

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Biography, Memoir, History

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December 2014

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Now an award winning author, Jane was born and adopted in London, in 1947. Her family emigrated to Zimbabwe, where she grew up, and at 18 she left home to live in South Africa. She met Rob there, and they married in Oxford, returned to South Africa, and ten years later in 1980, they emigrated with their family to Sydney Australia.

When she met her biological family in 2005 she stopped work. She was flooded with family stories, and as a way of making sense of everything, she began to write. As layer upon layer of family history emerged, she was often asked ‘why don’t you write a book?’ and Secrets, Spies and Spotted Dogs is the result. A serendipitous outcome in her search for identity emerged in 2008 when she began to draw and paint.

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Jane Eales I was adopted, and met my new half brother, Paul, in London in 2005 for the first time. This was wonderful for both of us. I was overwhelmed not just …moreI was adopted, and met my new half brother, Paul, in London in 2005 for the first time. This was wonderful for both of us. I was overwhelmed not just with the sheer volume of information about my new biological family, but also with sheer joy, and also a keen sense of loss. The family stories just poured out of him, often out of time sequence, and often requiring a base level of understanding of World War Two. Fearing
I would forget the stories, especially the details, and needing to ground my feelings, I kept a daily diary with a constantly changing list of questions that would guide me the next time we met. Many people went out of their way to help me in my research and record keeping became increasingly essential. Writing helped to order and make sense of her stories and over time, a picture emerged of who she was, her personality and her life. I longed to know her and find the links between us like any other mother and daughter. Gradually it became clear that her wartime career as a spy was in fact a new small piece of history, and when listeners urged me to write it into a book, i listened. (less)

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ABC Radio 'Conversation with Richard Fidler'

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Jane was interviewed about her book, Secrets, Spies and Spotted Dogs by Richard Fidler on
ABC Radio: 'Conversations with Richard Fidler' 16th April 2015 in Australia.

If you would like to listen to Jane's interview with Richard Fidler, copy and paste this URL into your browser.

http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2...

or go to http://middleharbourpress.com/secrets...
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