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Unforgetting: A Memoir
Good Friday, 1962. Belinda, who's just turned thirteen, is driving with her mother, obstetrician Diana Mason, to the country home of her family friends for the Easter break.
As they bump along a dusty coastal road, Belinda tells her mother a shocking story of abuse she has kept secret for nearly eight years. At the same time, her younger brother Julian reveals the secret to their father, playwright Bruce Mason, as they converge on their friends' house from a different direction.
It will take more than sixty years for Belinda to reveal the details of this story publicly. Who was going to believe her? Her parents were well known and respected, and not just in literary and medical circles. But finally, triggered by Julian's sudden death and inspired by one of New Zealand's finest writers, Belinda tackles the process of 'unforgetting', reviewing her traumatic past and coming to terms with its consequences.
As they bump along a dusty coastal road, Belinda tells her mother a shocking story of abuse she has kept secret for nearly eight years. At the same time, her younger brother Julian reveals the secret to their father, playwright Bruce Mason, as they converge on their friends' house from a different direction.
It will take more than sixty years for Belinda to reveal the details of this story publicly. Who was going to believe her? Her parents were well known and respected, and not just in literary and medical circles. But finally, triggered by Julian's sudden death and inspired by one of New Zealand's finest writers, Belinda tackles the process of 'unforgetting', reviewing her traumatic past and coming to terms with its consequences.
230 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2025
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December 27, 2025
The last few chapters were the best. Here I saw a reflective human being who understood the totality of how we become who we are.
For much of the book, the name dropping and self aggrandisement detracted from her story.
I don’t think the blurb truly conveyed what this memoir was.
For much of the book, the name dropping and self aggrandisement detracted from her story.
I don’t think the blurb truly conveyed what this memoir was.
December 5, 2025
Unforgetting: A Memoir, by Belinda Robinson.
Daughter of the late Bruce Mason, NZ playwright.
Daughter of the late Bruce Mason, NZ playwright.
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