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Blench, Cecily

Cecily Blench works for a small publisher in London and is writing a travel book about Burma, as well as making notes for a travel-biography of her grandmother.

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Grandmother’s Footsteps

Cecily Blench on Angela Bolton, The Maturing Sun

My uncle had told me of a memoir by a woman called Angela Bolton who had nursed in India at the same time as Grandma. The Maturing Sun (1986) is not a long book or a work of great literature, but it is a compelling portrait of nursing life during the war. I found a second-hand copy and began to read. I was less than halfway through when, six months after she’d left us, Grandma strolled on to the page.

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