Overview:
THE MEMORY OF LOVE is set in Freetown in 2001, in the aftermath of the civil war in which hundreds of thousands of Sierra Leoneans were killed, injured or forced to take refuge in neighbouring Guinea or Liberia. Forna’s narrative brings together the good, the bad, the well-meaning and the cowardly in a place of healing: a Freetown hospital to which a British psychologist, Adrian Lockheart, has come to work as a specialist in stress disorder.
Lockheart’s name is symbolic. He is married to Lisa, a woman whose “brisk, upbeat way of being he had mistaken, at first, for a certain tenderheartedness, a tendency to easy bruising”. They have a 10-year-old daughter, Kate, whom we are told that Adrian loves dearly (the brief depiction of his disintegrating family life in England is the weakest part of this otherwise assured novel). But when he arrives in Freetown there is, for all his desire to heal the damaged humanity surrounding him, something remote and withheld about him.
Forna understands that it is only by making patterns out of chaos that humans find the courage to continue living. And in this affecting, passionate and intelligent novel about the redemptive power of love and storytelling, she shows how it is done.
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Sincerelyours
And Blessed Are The Ones Who Care For Their Fellow Men!
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