I read the first half of this thinking it was a novel with a rather slow start. It is difficult to say what sort of book it is – lots of autobiography and travel, up to the source of various rivers.
It is quite an angry book, particularly towards the end, when she combines cancer with very unpleasant rejection by her birth mother, who she has eventually tracked down.
It also seems quite a self indulgent book. Who is Katharine Norbury and why should her story interest us? Perhaps that is unfair.
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