Creative Wordshops Writing Newsletter October 2024

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.
Alain de Botton

Last year I offered a storyshop to the Soul Carers network in Cape Town. This month I’d like to share extracts from this novel related to their work as death doulas. Clover Brooks ushers people peacefully through their last days, collecting their final words into three notebooks: ADVICE,

CONFESSIONS and REGRETS.
The book offers profundity through simplicity, on the other side of complexity. As a young girl, Clover ends up living with a grandfather who teaches her that curiosity and observation are as important as imagination. Ironically, while she’s studying thanatology in Japan, looking at how different cultures handle death, the old man dies.

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