My husband Dr Atam Vetta’s PhD was published in Nature. It was on quantative genetics. He taught me that every human being is UNIQUE. That means we each have a unique story to tell. So how should you tell your stories? You can write them, record them get someone to film you telling them. It doesn’t have to be about your life from the birth till now. Following my interviews of Ray Foulk and Roger Bannister for the Oxford Castaway series, both men wrote their memoirs. Memoir doesn’t have to be about every aspect of a life and it’s true in this case. Roger decided to concentrate on just two aspects of his life –his sporting and his scientific career. Rays’ Stealing Dylan from Woodstock is double the size of Food of Love but is about just one momentous year. I had the privilege of reviewing both books and compering Ray’s book launch in Blackwell.
Artist Weimin He captured the moment in brushstrokes. I wrote Weimin’s story from Manchuria to Oxford via Belfast in Oxford Castaways. Weimin He – Castaway
I recommended five memoirs including Trevor Noah’s for Shepherd.com
https://shepherd.com/best-books/memoirs-which-help-us-understand-the-world
Memoir can help readers empathise with people in circumstances almost beyond their imagination such as Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime. It was easy for me to understand how that felt because when Atam and I met in Smethwick in the West Midlands mixed relationships were regarded with hostility.
Memoir can inform fiction too. Novels help us walk in someone’s else’s shoes.
Memoir can inform fiction too. Novels help us walk in someone’s else’s shoes. I recommended these memoirs for Shepherd.com https://shepherd.com/best-books/memoirs-which-help-us-understand-the-world