Apprenticed to my Mother: the book

Geoff Le Pard popped in to the Meet and Greet this morning and left a link to his latest post.. He is writing a memoir of his time with his mother, following the loss of his father. He shares an introduction to the memoir but also has a request for beta readers, hopefully other memoir writers.. If you can step in and help then read the post and then contact Geoff direct. thanks

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Regular readers will recognise the heading. Last year I decided to pull together a memoir of my time with my mother, post dad. I’ve now finished it and it’s in for editing. This post, like so many, comes with a request. Are there readers out there, memoir writers or others, who’d like to beta read for me? I would be very grateful if there were. Of course, as with all such requests if you want a similar help from me you’ll only have to ask. It’s not a long book but one that will be precious to me. To help you on your way, I’ve set out the introduction to give you a flavour. Many thanks in advance.

I have many memories of my parents, always together, well apart from the walks I undertook with Dad. And then he was gone and we had to cope with an absence; more to the point I had…

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