The Blue Hippopotamus

Writing The Blue Hippopotamus Was Great Funsort Of Reliving My Early Life And Making Some Incidents Even Better Than They Were The First Time. What I Wanted Most Of All Was To Write A Page-Turner To Give The Reader A Chance To Actually Live And Feel What I Had Lived And Felt. In A Sense My Own Life Was A Page-Turner From Day To Day And A Wonderful One That I Enjoyed And Lovedeven The Difficult And Painful Happenings. I Think That Ive Been Tremendously Lucky To Have Had Such Aalmost A Charmed Lifeand Thats What I Wanted To Share With The Reader. Yes There Were Moments And Incidents That Were Difficult And Sometimes Very Painful Like When I Said My Final Goodbye To Maidi The Love Of My Life And What A Remarkable Love That Wasseveral Professional Authors Have Called That Good-Bye Heartbreaking And So It Was. It Was My Heart That Was Breaking And Maidis But We Both Knew That It Had To Be That Way And We Accepted It. And Then Of Course Many Many Years Later We Finally Met Again By Chance Or By Accident In Paris And The Closure We Had Needed For So Many Years Finally Arrived. I Wrote The Book When I Was Ninety And I Was The Last Survivor Of Our Group Of Five. We Had All Been Made To Swear That We Would Never Tell. But After Seventy Years I Felt The Story Could And Should Be Told.