June 24, 2020
Victoria Clayton, Writer
You think you'll never lose them...
But you know one day you will. Your parents. Well, they were old, they had good long lives and painless deaths.
I didn't care. I just wanted them back. Grief.
But I knew they weren't coming back so I went away too, in a Van, with my cat, where I could hold my grief and declare it to the sky and the trees and the animals...
Grief in the Van, A Memoir.
Read excerpts from
Grief in the Van here at my blog
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Grief in the Van; A Memoir is due for release very soon. Keep up to date with the latest on the production process.
About Victoria Clayton.
I was born in the UK of a Scottish mother and an Australian father and grew up in Melbourne. I have been a field archaeologist, excavating in Syria, Turkey, Jordan and Australia and an English teacher in Melbourne and China, among a ridiculous number of other occupations.
I love travel, reading (especially murder mystery a la Agatha Christie, but all sorts really), museums, libraries and things found in holes in the ground, particularly ancient figurines.
I never thought I would, but I also know a bit about dementia, loss and grief and being an adult orphan. Now I live in a van somewhere in Australia with Dougal, the cat, and I write about all of it.
The thing is...
I write about lots of stuff...
because I'm interested in lots of stuff including travel, archaeology, ancient figurines, museums, food, dementia and aging, living in a Van and life in general. So if you're someone who's also interested in lots of things, join my email newsletter which comes out about once a fortnight and includes my latest blog posts, an update on my latest book, books I like, what Dougal's been up to and other bits and bobs.
What (else) I'm working on now:
Grief (mostly)
They say when you hit fifty, you go to on average one funeral per year. Three years ago I went to four.
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Dementia
The story of my father's dementia and my mother's decline and how we all found ourselves with roles we never asked for.
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Ancient Figurines
I'm also currently working on the second edition of my book on the Iron Age figurines from North Syria.
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Travel and Excavation in Syria
Not a day goes by (well perhaps a slight exaggeration) that the months of excavation in Syria don't come to mind one way or another.
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