Listening to our Grandmothers by Mary Ann Mhina

Listening to our Grandmothers is a new collection of wonderful stories from real women, which warm you up inside. These five inspiring women have lived through seven decades during which the world has changed beyond our imagining. In Listening to our Grandmothers Mhina presents the stories of five grandmothers and in doing so not only illuminates individual lives lived through a period of transformational social change but also highlights timeless wisdom offering us hope for the future. This little book will bring you home to the wise elder in you.

Targeted Age Group:: 20-50

How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others?
I think the focus on ordinary older women’s stories and drawing out the inspiration and wisdom from them. This book is meant to make you think about the stories of the older women you know as well as tell the stories of these five women’s lives.

What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
If you can teach yourself a daily writing practice you are 80% of the way towards competing your first book. Creating the practice and structure needed to keep writing and working on your draft until you are happy with it is absolutely the difference between a writer and someone with a great idea for a book who never finishes it!

Author Bio:
Mary Ann Mhina was born in Berkshire and grew up in South Oxfordshire. She has since lived in Zimbabwe, Scotland, Tanzania and South and East London. Her interest in life stories began when, as a graduate researcher at Goldsmiths University she began to investigate the stories that mentally ill people told about their own lives. A year of listening to their stories in villages and health facilities in Tanzania convinced Mary Ann that there was much wisdom to be found in all of our stories. She is now an anthropologist, writer and facilitator with a passion for telling stories and asking questions that help us to think and feel differently about our own lives. Listening to our Grandmothers is her first book.

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
This book started from a realisation I had that older women’s stories were often neglected and ignored and that we fail so often to listen to the wisdom of our Grandmothers. As a result I was inspired to spend quality time with five inspiring older women and record their stories for this book which aims to present snap shots of their lives.

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