Ill Be Gone In the Dark
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The Motherlode is about the difficulty of living with trauma.
The wound never heals.
Even 40 years later, it still throbs on occasion.
On the deadline front, McNamaras feelings are completely relatable.
What was I thinking last night?
she asked herself in a diary entry.
I let myself get drunk and fall into a trap.
But with a married man with children?
I did not want that to happen.
Did he rape me?)
The key line from McNamara was this: Belfast has driven itself within my bones.
That was the thread that connected her to the survivors in the GSK case.
And the documentary has made elegant associations between McNamara and the crimes that obsessed her so completely.
The Hardwicks succeeded in that, against difficult odds.
Others were not so fortunate.
Forensic Files:
Never say, Hows the book going?
Excellent advice, from a writer, about what not to ask another writer.
At the end of your life everyone wishes it had been more about family and less about work.
I just need to reflect on priorities and stuff like that a bit more.
