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    A Letter to My Late Mother
    A Letter to My Late Mother
    A Letter to My Late Mother
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    A Letter to My Late Mother

    By Brenda Wardle

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    In 'A Letter to My Late Mother', the author has seven conversations with her late mother. She pours her heart out in a highly
    intense and heartfelt tribute, filling her mother in on what has happened since her passing. Prolific South African author, Professor Vincent M Gray (PhD), who is from the School of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of the Witwatersrand, had this to say about Wardle as a writer and the manuscript:- ‘I believe that your manuscript has literary merit, and I am persuaded that you are a serious and gifted writer who needs to be taken seriously. I believe your work can make a significant artist contribution to South African writing. I have no doubt about this. Your Letter was gripping and moving. Thank you for sharing it with me.’

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrenda Wardle
    Release dateMay 9, 2017
    ISBN9781370791590
    A Letter to My Late Mother
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    Brenda Wardle

    Brenda Wardle is a South African Doctor of Laws student. She is a prolific author - essayist and poet. Wardle has published books on high profile criminal cases including 'To Kill a Fragile Rose: The State's Case Against Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius" to mention but a few. Her genres span poetry, children's books, fiction and non-fiction. Wardle is Chief Operations Officer at the Wardle College of Law and is a legal analyst of international repute having been interviewed on Sky News by Jeremy Thompson, BBC by Karin Giannone, Fox News by South African Correspondent, Paul Tilsey, SABC by Dumile Mateza. Between 1st January 2017 and 8th April 2017 Wardle has published 15 titles. On the 1st May 2017 she will be publishing her latest book, The Verdict: The Legal Trials and Tribulations of President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (As Politics and the Law, Converge).https://t.co/tWXyidMl4y

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      A Letter to My Late Mother - Brenda Wardle

      ‘A Letter to My Late Mother’

      TITLE-PAGE

      ‘A Letter To My Late Mother’

      Title

      Brenda Wardle

      Author

      COPYRIGHT PAGE

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof

      may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever

      without the express written permission of the publisher

      except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Published in the Republic of South Africa

      Wardle College of Law (Pty) Ltd

      P O Box 1335

      BASSONIA

      2061

      Gauteng Province

      Mobile +27 (0) 83 899 0709

      Facsimile; +27 (0) 866 800 903

      Email: bwardle@me.com

      First Edition, 2017

      Copyright © 2017

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Title-Page

      Copyright Page

      Acknowledgements

      Dedication

      Prefatory Note

      Conversation One

      Conversation Two

      Conversation Three

      Conversation Four

      Conversation Five

      Conversation Six

      About the Author

      Summary of Achievements

      Other Titles

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      A special word of gratitude goes to Professor Vincent M Gray (PhD) of the School of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of the Witwatersrand.

      Professor, I am humbled by your kind and generous words. You are the only person I had shown this manuscript to. I’m still not quite sure why I did so but I suspect it stems from the fact that you are such a prolific writer.

      I have Tony Harding to thank for ushering ‘you into my life’ (if I may put it that way). Thank you, for having taken time out from a busy schedule to read this highly personal and emotional letter.

      DEDICATION

      This Book is Offered

      AS A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT AND GRATITUDE

      I offer this book as a token of my undying love for you.

      Ndileka, Ncediwe, Pinini-Wardle.

      I offer this book in recognition of your vast lakes of wisdom.

      I offer this book in remembrance of your abundant eloquence.

      I offer this book as a reminder of the depths of your integrity.

      I offer this book as a living and breathing monument….

      I offer this book as a monument erected,

      in honour of your many strengths.

      I offer this book as a celebration of all your virtues.

      I offer this book to say thank you for your abundant love.

      I offer this book in applause.

      I offer this book in honour.

      I offer it to

      YOU, my late mother, my INSPIRATION!

      PREFATORY NOTE

      Dear Ma ….

      I just couldn’t wait to dispense with all the formalities. I didn’t want to be fussing about the copyright page, the title-page or anything insignificant such as that. But, here I am finally. There’s the first draft below, peering at me curiously, wondering whether I am going to use it. You see it’s the 6th of May, 2017 and in just four days it will be your birthday. I want this book to be a celebration of your birthday, you beautiful Taurus, you. Then, a few days thereafter it will be Mother’s Day and I’m hoping that many mothers and daughters (perhaps even sons) will get to read it.

      If I had the means, I would make a copy available to the Women’s Manyano at St Paul’s Methodist Church in Pefferville, East London, your chosen spiritual home. Oh, I am reminded this early, that that is the church where you collapsed, that is the church where you caved in, suffering a major cerebro-vascular accident. It was a Thursday remember? You fell at the place which mattered most, standing in front, addressing women and doing what you only did best – leading.

      They told us that you were angry because there were wilted flowers at the back of the church. You wanted these discarded because they signified death. Little did you know, I’m certain, that it was your death which those cursed, wilted flowers signified.

      I remember how much you loved fresh flowers, I would insist on roses and you, would always, insist on pink carnations. You asked me to research the history of the carnation, its links to the Virgin Mary, still, I tried to convince you to take to roses for I verily believed that a rose was the queen of the garden.

      I’m taking you back in this prefatory note to our last conversation. A conservation which took place on Tuesday a mere two days before you fell ill, a mere five days prior to your death. I had missed you that day and I was in the mood for idle conversation. As I headed to the phone I wondered about what I would say. You picked up the phone and after we had dispensed with a few pleasantries, you asked me to try. I promised you,

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