: About Me

Hello to all,

My name is Lorraine Bowyer, I'm 46 and currently living in Normandy, France - although I'm not French!

I have lived here for just under 5 years and love it, it's a beautiful part of the world and very peaceful, a bit like stepping out of the rat race.

I've been encouraged to start writing by my family and first put pen to paper in March of this year (2008). It's been a real challenge to keep going amidst running a business and running two teenagers about. What has been of real support is belonging to a writing group which gives me the focus and discipline to keep going. Thank you girls!

My passion is ...

My family

My parents always told me ...

that they were right and I was wrong

My childhood ambition ...

to work in Woolworths on the 'Pick -n - Mix' counter

Why I write ...

to challenge my own ideas

My inspiration ...

glorious winter walks along deserted beaches

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Survival

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The Park keeper My name is Mordecai Liebermann, I am 45 years old and for the 14 months until our Liberation on May 4th 1945 I was the Park Keeper at Neuengamme Concentration Camp. This is my story as recounted to British Army Intelligence Officers. I started working at the Hamburg Botanischer Garten as an under-gardener when I was 16 years old and gradually worked my way up to section leader with a small group of under-gardeners. My team and I were all Jewish, but considered to be hard working and when the park Directors established the Planten un Blomen' exhibition in 1935, we were alloc...

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