Social & Educational Group for Market Rasen & Surrounding Area

Heather Rosser – Monthly Speaker

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Heather-Rosser-TalkHeather Rosser is a professional author of textbooks and also a novel “In the Line of Duty“. Her talk covered how she developed the theme of her novel based on her family history and the trials and tribulations of getting it published.

She accompanied her talk with illustrations from family photos and reading passages from her book. She obliquely mentioned several incidents that occurred in her family but wouldn’t elaborate because it would spoil the novel. As she related true incidents from her family and how this translated into the fictional story I found it difficult to follow who was real and who was fictional. It would have been helpful to have had an illustration of the family tree (real and fictional)

It felt like a meander through her family history (fact and fictional) however it lacked coherence with last-minute decisions not to read particular paragraphs. She referred to some of the social effects of the war such as “the waifs and strays society”; white feathers; and the number of abandoned babies however these references lacked depth.

She completed her talk with the journey she took to getting her novel published in 2014, 100 years after the assassination Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

 

Comments

3 responses to “Heather Rosser – Monthly Speaker”

  1. Geoff

    I was disappointed with the speaker at the last meeting. Her talk was rather disjointed and disorganised and hopped from history to family and to fiction and back again several times.
    The talk was advertised as ‘Families in the First World War’. I was expecting something on that topic. I was hoping to learn how families coped with the privations caused by that conflict. There was nothing about that.
    The visual aids were not relevant to the material.

  2. dawsonu3a

    Your review of Heather’s talk is extremely diplomatic Steve as in my opinion, she was inarticulate and lacked coherence. I was expecting better, and assumed she would be a relatively experienced speaker bearing in mind her professional background however, at times it was embarrassing to listen to and very difficult to follow. On this occasion, it was a pity the PA system worked so well !

  3. David Oliver

    Steve’s review is very tactful, unfortunately for me the talk came over as a book promotion – which I suppose it was. I share the reviewers confusion as to who was who, as at times I became lost.
    The best part for me was the PA system working and sounding better than it has for some time – Phew!

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