The Girls from Alexandria

Author/Guide: Carol Cooper

Why a Booktrail?

1900s: A re-coming of age story about family, identity, and homeland.

ISBN: B08L5S41PP
Genre: Fiction

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What you need to know before your trail

Memories are fragile when you are seventy years old. I can’t afford to lose any more of them, not when remembering the past might help with the here and now.

Nadia needs help. Help getting out of her hospital bed. Help taking her pills. One thing she doesn’t need help with is remembering her sister. But she does need help finding her.

Alone and abandoned in a London hospital, 70-year-old Nadia is facing the rest of her life spent in a care home unless she can contact her sister Simone… who’s been missing for 50 years.

Despite being told she’s ‘confused’ and not quite understanding how wi-fi works, Nadia is determined to find Simone. So with only cryptic postcards and her own jumbled memories to go on, Nadia must race against her own fading faculties and find her sister before she herself is forgotten.

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BookTrail it to the Alexandria of Carol Cooper

” This is not the Valley of the Kings or a resort by the Red Sea. My Egypt is uniquely Alexandria.”

The author herself grew up here and this is her heritage. However, she says this is not a memoir but every scene is steeped in memories that warm her as the summer sun once did. Even years later, she says she can still taste the smoky corn on the cob grilled over charcoal on the sea front.

The scene setting is amazing

“Come sunset, the sky turned every shade of pink, purple and read. As the last slice of the sun sank, there was a momentary green flash. You had to be quick to see it. The flash was when you could make a wish, in the instant before the sun dropped like a rock into the sea and the sky suddenly turned dark.”