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Mary Hamer

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I was educated as a Catholic girl at a convent grammar school and after that at Oxford but I grew up a secret rebel. Reading Kipling’s Jungle Book, as a child gave me the first hint that there was a different, more exciting way to see the world. After reading English at Oxford I taught for many years and published works of non-fiction. Then ten years ago I began to research the dangerous lives of Rudyard Kipling and his sister, Trix. I started to realise that only fiction could do justice to their story. Kipling & Trix was my first novel and it won the Virginia Prize for Fiction.

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	Kipling & Trix 3.43 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Perspectives on the Late Victorian Economy : Essays in Quantitative Economic History, 1860 - 1914 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Signs of Cleopatra: History, Politics, Representation 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Signs of Cleopatra: Reading an Icon Historically 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing by Numbers: Trollope's Serial Fiction it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A hundred years ago Rudyard Kipling visited Egypt. It was February and he was travelling at least partly for his health: his doctors liked him to avoid the English winter. More than a health-cure, though, it was ‘A Return to the East’ as he named it, thrilled to discover how the journey was taking him back into the world he’d known as a child and again as a young man. Listen to him:

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The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4)

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“To see you naked is to recall the Earth.”
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“Speaking and listening are a form of psychic breathing.”
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“Living at once inside and outside the framework, Hester is able to see the frame.”
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“Caring requires paying attention, seeing, listening, responding with respect. Its logic is contextual, psychological. Care is a relational ethic, grounded in a premise of interdependence. But it is not selfless.”
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