HOUSEHOLD STORIES/Katei Monogatari - Paperback

by Angela Jeffs (Author)

This is a love story with a difference. Love, life, loss. . . most of us experience it all. Yet this is not a relationship between two lovers; nor even between two people. "A love story with a difference" is about an intense relationship. . . with a house. A house in Japan. Here the author describes in intricate and loving detail the years she spent in the Eastern-Western-style house that she made her home. She leads you on a fascinating and increasingly urgent journey through the interior, and the life lived within its four walls. "Because we may not be here much longer, and even if we stay in Japan, life is shifting, the world in transition, and I want to remember. Remember it all."

Author Biography

Born in Worcestershire, raised in Warwickshire, Angela Jeff studied drama and Laban dance in Yorkshire, and then moved to London to work in publishing and raise her family. She went to Japan for a month or so in 1986, and stayed there 26 years, reinventing herself as a journalist and writer. She also developed a programme of creative writing, Drawing on the Writer Within, which led to the creation of this book. Angela moved into what had been her mother's home in Scotland with her Japanese husband in late 2012. Here she continues to write, and facilitate courses and workshops. (www.angelajeffs.co.uk)