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Authors: T.M. Clark
Lilia Kanna, who held my novice hand most of the way through
My Brother-But-One
and made me want to publish more titles with Harlequin, because nothing was ever too much or too hard for her.
The design team, my cover fairies, thank you! May I now upgrade you to gods?
Hanging sacrifices of children in the muti and witchdoctor trade in Africa are real. The details and ritual I have built around this are fictional.
The Shona name for the Sinoia Caves (Chinhoyi Caves) is Chirorodziva, Pool of the Fallen. The Shona believe that there are ancestors sleeping in this pool, and that you shouldn't throw a stone into the water as the spirits will catch the stone and a curse will fall on to the stone thrower. The sacrifices and further superstitions I have built around these beliefs are fictional.
The Rhodesian Philological Operations Unit â POU â was real. The motto
Tiri Tose
was real. The details and the deeds of my PSYOPS and atrocities they committed are fictional.
Terry the lion in Fort Droppies was real. Please see
www.recce.co.za/terry-s-pictures
for pictures of his interaction with the troops and some of their first-hand accounts of what Terry got up to within their Fort. Obviously my characters' interactions with Terry are fictional.
PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, is real. The term was first used by anti-Vietnam War activists and the anti-war group Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in the mid 1970s, but was only formally recognised by the Committee of Reactive Disorders, USA, in 1980. Today many people are diagnosed with PTSD, and while some seek the help they require, many still don't.
TINA MARIE CLARK
Born in Zimbabwe, Tina Marie completed her primary school years at boarding school in Bulawayo, but on weekends and holidays, her time was spent exploring their family ranch in Nyamandhlovu, normally on the back of her horse. Her teenage years were totally different to her idyllic childhood. After her father died, the family of five women moved to Kokstad, a rural town at the foot of the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa, where she lived in the boarding school hostel as her home. In winter she walked to school in the snow and could never get warm, and in summer she sweated having to wear an impractical, but smart, blazer on the same trail.
She began writing fiction when she moved to the UK while being a stay-at-home mum to her two sons, following a suggestion from her husband Shaun during a trip to Paris, and she hasn't looked back.
Now living on a small island near Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, Tina Marie combines her passion for story telling with her love for Africa. When not running around after the men in her life, she gets to enjoy her hobbies, which include boating, reading, sewing, travel, gardening, and lunching with her friends. (Not necessarily in that order!)
Passionate about Africa, different cultures and wildlife, most of Tina Marie's books are set somewhere on that ancient continent.
Readers are welcome to find Tina on social media:
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Twitter: @TinaMarieClark2
Or visit on her website:
www.tmclark.com.au
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ISBN: 9781488742675
TITLE: Shooting Butterflies
First Australian Publication 2014
Copyright © 2014 by T.M. Clark
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