Childhood Memories at Twilight - Sargeaunt, Likengkeng
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Childhood Memories at Twilight shows the turbulent relationship between the author and her mother where her siblings were favoured and her emotional journey to become who she is today. This is a story of a feisty young girl trying to overcome being belittled and bullied, struggling to get out of her mother's clutches and be independent through education. She managed to get a degree in Economic Sciences and met her boyfriend who is now her husband of 34 years. She then took a risk and left her country to be with her boyfriend in Antigua where she learnt to sail. Coming from a landlocked country…mehr

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Childhood Memories at Twilight shows the turbulent relationship between the author and her mother where her siblings were favoured and her emotional journey to become who she is today. This is a story of a feisty young girl trying to overcome being belittled and bullied, struggling to get out of her mother's clutches and be independent through education. She managed to get a degree in Economic Sciences and met her boyfriend who is now her husband of 34 years. She then took a risk and left her country to be with her boyfriend in Antigua where she learnt to sail. Coming from a landlocked country this was very frightening for her because she can't swim! She got married 18 months later and they moved to England. Sailing became part of her life as her husband was a sailor. She managed to win 3 cups from her Royal Yacht Club Logs. The book is about her childhood and sailing to new places and discovering new ways of anchoring on rocks to get privacy, especially in Sweden. She feels believing in yourself is the way forward to achieving your goals.
Autorenporträt
Born in 1955, in Pretoria, in the Republic of South Africa, Likengkeng Sargeaunt grew up in the mountains of Lesotho being looked after by her paternal grandmother. Met her mother at eleven years old. After going through higher secondary school, worked for Standard bank before going to university. In her last year at university, she met a British guy who asks her to join him in Antigua, because being a civil engineer he had to work there and ends up marrying him. They end up in England where she then has a baby girl, Michelle. Amongst other things she learned how to sail, and explored the inland waterways of Europe in their motorboat.