A beautifully written review, Selma. And like every good review by a renowned writer, it makes me want to go out, get the book and read it for myself - and see whether my reactions to it are the same as, or differ from, those of the reviewer! I recall her amused delight when, meeting her for the first time, I told her that I'd read "A Daughter's Story" like it was a thriller, from cover to cover in a matter of two or three days. "Alban, hear this," she called out to her husband, "my book has been called many things, but it's the first time anyone has called it a thriller!" I was privileged to know D. Aurora fairly well, and visited her in her home in Aldona a few times during my all too brief annual visits to Goa. During one of these visits I left a copy of my manuscript of 'One for Sorrow, Two for Joy' for her to read. A fortnight later she e-mailed me: "There is so much detail, humour, pathos and a sense of both place and culture in your stories." I was naturally thrilled with her compliment, and immediately wrote back asking if I could use it as a blurb on the cover of my book, to which she graciously and readily agreed. It was just days before the book went into print, and I was adamant that the publisher modify the cover to add her comment to those of Wendell Rodricks and Rajdeep Sardesai. My regret was that she died just before I moved to Goa, and that I could not spend time with her as I had intended, learning from her and picking her brains on the vast swathe of topics that her conversation always encompassed. Tino de Sa
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