![]() Her mother was a war baby, abandoned at the Home of Compassion in Wellington and later adopted by a middle class couple with strong Catholic sensibilities and a desire to do good and moral things a desire that didn’t encompass compassionate and kind child rearing.Ĭharlotte’s father was Scottish and from a coal mining family, he escaped this background through self education and by joining the merchant navy, and whilst on leave in New Zealand he met and married Charlotte’s mother.Ĭharlotte was brought up by two creative, intelligent and unstable individuals whose backgrounds created unhappiness and various manifestations of addictive and compulsive behaviours. “Charlotte Rodgers was born in New Zealand. Whilst the people concerned were not blood relatives, they were part of who I was and very much my family of choice in our shared inability or refusal to accept the terms of mainstream existence.” “This was no surprise given the way we lived our lives at that time, but was no less saddening. It led her to acknowledge her own past, re-connecting and rescuing a catalogue of youthful dead or missing loved ones. P is for Prostitution grew out of the author’s exploration of death and ancestral cults. ![]() Women are often regarded as objects, possessions and are expected to be submissive.” (Jane Hunt) represents the era you grew up in and the position of women in society and the rules they were expected to live by and the consequences of breaking these rules. There are moments of black comedy, sexual horror, and final, uneasy redemption in which the author reclaims the trajectory of her life. Each letter marks a step on a journey into the lowest circles of hell in which the “author’s creativity and intellect is misdirected towards a chaotic, nihilistic and devastating existence” (reader’s foreword). Through various episodes the author charts her own insights into addiction and the kind of existence that inevitably goes with this. P is for Prostitution is a primer unlike any you will have read before, the ABC approach far from simplistic. Click here for Kindle USA Edition ‘The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience…’
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