No Time for Dances. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.No Time for Dances

230 pages. Text tannedShe let me go and disappeared . . . without a backward glance. And I, I turne d away, sick at heart, but not knowing . . . that I had said goodbye to her fore ver. Now I wish, as much as I have ever wished for anything . . . that I had been able to cage those precious minutes within the nets of gold I could not rec ognise as such. And that I had been somehow able to prolong those minutes into y ears. Nine years ago, at the age of fifty. Gillian Bouras's sister, Jacqui, t ook her own life. Here Gillian explores what went so wrong in Jacqui's life and why her family and friends could not save her. She examines their shared childho od and their growth to womanhood and independence, picking apart the different t hreads of their lives, seeking answers and solace. No Time For Dances is a fr ank, heartfelt, lyrical and compelling examination of the nature of grief and me ntal illness. It is also the story of a warm, delightful and fragile woman who l ived much of her life in mental pain.…