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About Me
- Donna Wootton
- I'm a retired a teacher turned writer. As well as writing fiction, I have also written about my late father, Lloyd 'Moon' Wootton, who was a star lacrosse goalie. It is published by Ginger Press. Visit: http://www.gingerpress.com/ I am a member of the Writers Union of Canada and the Spirit of the Hills writers' group. Visit: www.spiritofthehills.org
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The three main protaganists run away from painful pasts to seek acceptance and belonging. Two teachers from different parts of Canada escape to the Turks and Caicos Islands, and a teenager from the Caicos escapes to Canada. All three discover that running away was just one step on the way to wholeness. Anyone who has wondered about what constitutes 'home for the heart' will benefit from reading this intriguing tale. Diane Taylor
Thanks, Diane. I will use your well worded summary in describing my novel's theme.
Leaving Paradise is wonderfully descriptive as it delves into the philosophical nature of relationships and the inner struggle of individuals attempting to come to terms with the past, the present and ultimately the future.
It is a beautifuly written and engaging piece.
Donna Wooton herself speaks of the search for wholeness. In what various ways does the main character try to accomplish wholeness? And how well does she suceed? I think those questions would have guided my reading whether or not I had read Ms Wooton's comment, as I have just now. I read the book with enormous curiosity, watching, so to speak, the unfolding pattern of memories that link together its various parts and, consequently, the interlocking theme – wholeness, self-completion - that seems to me to drive both thought and action from start to finish. It is very much a work of psychological reflection. It dares the complexity of psychological reflection, couageously, and does not disappoint. Where, in that respect, is the protagonist at the end of the work? Not, I think, where she thinks she is. And if that is so, is this work in wholeness pursued in others of Donna Wooton's works, most notably for example, in such stories as "The Music Garden" and “Anyone Can Dance”?
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