I can now remember why ROZ just contacted me as ROSELYN...

My mother recently left me a novel to read - which I had naturally seen before...and to be honest - didn't think much of - although my mother had loved reading it...yes, I had read it at the CIA LAB after ROZ had bombed it off...speed-writing...and then given it to me to have a look...

BROOKLYN
by COLM TOIBIN

MCDONALD showed me a photo of the fake author - who was going to pass the novel off as his own 'COLM TOIBIN' photo at the back of the book...and I have to say that my observations upon his photo were not 'complimentary' but then why should they be...I was sick and tired of this SLAVERY...writing books for people who could hardly write a line of their own, without help...and not to see a penny of it afterwards.

However I did query ROZ in terms of 'you're not IRISH'...however, i was told that this didn't matter...she had many Irish contemporaries at her CATHOLIC GIRLS' BOARDING SCHOOL in the North of England and she also knew BROOKLYN very well indeed...so she had enough experience to draw from and she loved writing...and she liked writing about women's relationships particularly...

...which was what that little INGRATE colm toibin got upset about, once he had read the book that he was to publish under his own name...everybody who knew him...would be slightly surprised that he had this 'understanding' of the 'fairer sex'...to put it mildly. He shunned women in the main and treated them badly.

MCDONALD talked him into 'ownership' of the book - explaining that 'reverse psychology' was part of the game here...you shock your nearest and dearest and they love you all the more for it...that brute has a soft side...a heart of gold...etc etc....