By Peter Morris
The Story
Mary, a bright, very pretty, yet serious girl, by dint of her courage, common-sense and honesty, manages to navigate the delusions and the warped thinking of many of her contemporaries, to emerge as a good-natured and sound-minded young woman who knows her own mind.
Tested by right and wrong relationships and the colourful though dubious vicissitudes of the film world, but deftly guided by her shrewd university flat-mate and her loving if naïve parents, our pilgrim wends her way along paths where there is no moral consensus, to end up happily as a straight-thinking and quietly sparkling heroine.
A sub-theme is an exposé of the depravity and self-serving corruption of many of those engaged on the ‘care’ band-wagon.
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Peter Morris
The Author
Peter Morris, the author of a number of novels and a retired anaesthetist, has lived and worked in Britain, Scandinavia and Europe.
Here he writes in the first person, boldly penetrating – he hopes – the labyrinth of the female psyche in its late teens, as his heroine – a modern-day university student – struggles with the deceptions and dualities of persona on offer and is tempted by that attitude of quasi-jurisdiction over others which is so in-vogue.
His tacit intent though, is not to unpick any feminine impulse, but to emphasise the necessity of finding your true self and of not sinking into a mire of borrowed fantasies. Only by this will you avoid what Kierkegaard calls, ‘The greatest despair of not knowing who you are.’ It is on the same turf as the Delphic Oracle’s, ‘Know thyself.’
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By Peter Morris Blog 5The sub-plot of the malicious and defamation-spreading social worker is based on a true story, but it did not occur in the North-East of England. Had Mary not been sure of her own instincts and stood her ground, he would have dragged her into a...
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By Peter Morris Blog 4Mary – sharp, intuitive and attractive – is also encircled by the film world’s charlatans and narcissists, a self-doubting lover and the social workers who try to corral, seduce and demean her. Yet she learns to recognise and navigate these...
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By Peter Morris Blog 3The canvas by Orazio Gentileschi – as used on the cover – depicts an episode from Tommaso da Celano’s hagiography of Saint Francis. Gentileschi was born in Pisa in 1563 and died in London in 1639. In 1603 he borrowed a pair of false wings and a...