Letters from Inside the Whale: Resuming the Conversation My Father and I Never Had . . . about His War Author|Ted Hill Rumors spread of a ghost

Rumors spread of a ghost

born 1961 in Hertfordshire

If society knew her secret people would call her a monster a beast a freak of nature

Past President

"For her memoir When My Mother Is Most Beautiful

Letters from Inside the Whale: Resuming the Conversation My Father and I Never Had . . . about His War Author|Ted Hill Rumors spread of a ghostA little girl asked her father, "What did you do in the war, Daddy?" Tucking his child in bed, he answered with a fantastic story about a whale. A tale she wholeheartedly believed, until she didn't. He never talked about his war again. Coming of age during the Vietnam era, the daughter watched war play out on TV, listened to broadcasts of the draft on the radio, faced the mirror of a Vietnam Memorial engraved with names of the dead, joined the protest