My first review for Castles in the Air: A Family Memoir of Love and Loss is now up on Amazon.com and it has come as an enormous relief.
‘When I started reading this memoir-fiction, I didn’t expect to read it all till the end … But I did. Alison’s narrative had me gripped. Having lived in Singapore and HK and being from Bombay I loved seeing these countries as they were through the eyes of an expat. I say ‘expat’ in a good humoured way for aren’t we all expats in many forms. The word expat itself is a cause of much discussion among many of us who’ve lived in many countries. Who is a migrant? And who is an expat? Though that’s a discussion for another day. I can understand now why this memoir was so difficult to write. Alison bring’s Molly alive in these pages. She takes her ego out of the book completely and through Molly bares her soul. I hope you put some ghosts to rest after writing this amazing book Alison! More power to you for being courageous and sharing this very emotionally charged, exciting and often not very plain sailing life of an amazing woman. (And by that I mean both you and Molly!)’
