The Woman Behind the Waterfall
This garden, this spring, this dazzling sunlight, the sound of a solitary bird singing, feels like a dream shimmering around me. The white lilac, my thin dress, the constant deep smell of Ukrainian earth… I look up into the light. Streaks of memory now forming against a background of falling gold.
Leonora Meriel is a novelist writing literary, contemporary, speculative and historical fiction. Her work explores the boundaries between reality and the imagination, and her books have been acclaimed as “ambitious and thought-provoking” by Kirkus Reviews, “strange and beautiful” by writer Esther Freud and “a literary work of art” by Richmond Magazine. Her latest novel Mbaqanga Nights, set between the protest jazz of apartheid South Africa and Jewish Ukraine at the turn of the Nineteenth Century, has been called “a time-jumping… story of oppression and resilience” by Kirkus Reviews.
