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Journal

Short pieces from Grace on memory, medicine, painting and the making of the book.

Behind the book Grace and Phillip photographed together.

Why I began writing at all

Placeholder text. This card shows the layout for a real post: here, the walk in the park where the memoir started.

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Reflections An oil painting by Grace McKee of pale blue eggs in a woven nest.

Learning to paint late

Placeholder text. A space for writing about the studio, the teachers, and starting something new.

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Memories Grace as a small child in front of a steam locomotive in India.

Three days on a train

Placeholder text. For pieces about the railway colonies and a childhood spent moving.

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Behind the book Grace as a newly qualified doctor in a white coat with a stethoscope.

What I left out

Placeholder text. For notes on the chapters that were hardest to write, and what did not make the final draft.

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Cover of A Kaleidoscope of Memories by Grace McKee.

A Kaleidoscope of Memories

The whole story, properly told

The journal offers fragments. The book is where they fit together.

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