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‘Ignoring Gravity’… who is Rose?

ROSE HALDANE “There were hundreds of varieties of rose and some days Rose certainly didn’t feel like she merited the association, though she preferred the name to Rosemary. “I’m a flower, not a herb,” had been her standard retort as a child. Sam called her every derivative, every bastardisation, including Roz, Rosa and once even Rosalind, Shakespeare’s heroine. This insulted Rose the most, she preferred Beatrice’s wit. ‘Rosalind’, she’d written in a sixth form essay, ‘was rather wet.’ Her teacher had scrawled across the bottom in green ink: Subjective. Prove it. Facts not assumption.”

Coming soon…
‘IGNORING GRAVITY’ #1 – the first instalment of Rose Haldane’s captivating story.

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sandradan1 October 20, 2013 at 8:57 am

Too many poetic references! SD
EllaDee October 19, 2013 at 10:11 pm

A rose by any other name… Oh my love is like a red red rose… Yes, if you were named Rose, you could get tired of it.

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Characterization: the Judi Dench way | sandra danby says:

February 26, 2014 at 9:29 am

[…] I do this too. Back in the days when Ignoring Gravity didn’t have a title, I wrote an Excel sheet with details about Rose’s back story: her birth sign [Virgo], what car she drives [a black Mini with a white roof], her most intense dislikes [people who don’t do what they promise to do; unwashed hair]. Her character traits: she avoids confrontations but will speak up if feels wronged; at work, she puts her head down and gets on with the job; a Guardian reader at work, but secretly reads chick-lit at home. To read more about Rose, click here. […]

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