Contents of A Life Between the Layers
Viewing Block Two.
Block Two
Adult life, memory, evidence and the work of reclaiming a life from incomplete and disputed institutional records.
Chapter 11 The Life That Followed
The adult life that took shape after the events of childhood and youth, and the experience of living forward without yet understanding everything that had been carried with it.
Chapter 12 Work, Roads and Country
Work, travel, coach driving, landscapes and the education that came through movement, observation and encounters with people and country.
Chapter 13 Building a Life
Work, business, relationships and the long process of constructing an adult life around experiences that had never been fully resolved.
Chapter 14 What Memory Did With It
The changing experience of memory, gaps in recall, separated periods of experience and the gradual recognition that forgetting was not always ordinary forgetting.
Chapter 15 When the Past Began Returning
The return of events, names, physical memories and connections, and the difficult process of discovering how apparently separate parts of a life belonged together.
Chapter 16 Making Connections
The connections that began to emerge between returned memories, physical experiences, people, places and events that had previously appeared separate.
Chapter 17 Following the Records
Seeking the documentary trail and confronting the silences, errors and contradictions within institutional accounts.
Chapter 18 The Cost of Being Disbelieved
The lasting cost of disbelief when inaccurate institutional accounts are repeatedly preferred to lived experience and testimony.
Chapter 19 Building the Evidence
Gathering documents, recordings, correspondence and recollections, preserving their provenance and revealing the relationships between them.
Chapter 20 Reclaiming the Record
Bringing the separated layers together and reclaiming the authority to describe a life in terms that remain answerable to evidence.
