The Unexpected Joy of Coming Together
A book manuscript and a film premiere, and lots of amazing reviews... but what really matters?
Firstly, I have been quiet, I know, and it has been impossible to avoid. A crazy misalignment of events, which might have, in my overly positive outlook, been vaguely clever at the time. Oh perfect timing! The first draft of Into Being is due the day before the premiere of Children of the Cult! But proved to be a bit of a head spin.
But I delivered the book, and I turned up at the premiere. And now I am almost on the other side.
What I didn’t factor in – and what I am not very good at preparing myself for - was the emotional impact of the film and its repercussions, and watching it in a room full of people who had lived it much more than I had, some of whom were seeing it for the first time.