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As a child, Jo tried to survive, the best way she could, her mother’s illness, alcoholism and suicide; her father’s emotional absence; and the loss of her much older sister when that sibling left home. As a young woman, Jo’s interactions with Maddy, despite their loving relationship, trigger the fear of being emotionally dependent on her lover and of being vulnerable to the potential loss inherent in an intimate relationship. It is that fear that, subsequently, leads to her ‘disappearance’.
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Emilie finds her lover, Tamara, face down and unconscious near her Jeep. It soon becomes apparent that a violent blow to the head is the cause. Beyond the fear of possible complications not yet ruled out by Tamara’s doctor, Emilie and the police need more clues than they have regarding the attacker’s identity and motive.
Dreams emerge, deep from inside Tamara’s disturbed and fragmented, drug induced sleep. Triggered by past vignettes in Tamara’s life, some of these dreams retain the sensual quality of the moment: lust, love, and tenderness in the vineyards of Bordeaux while others morph into nightmares.
Jagged Dreams is about the disturbing reality that becomes Tamara’s during the time she spends in the ward, inside her bed, inside her head, while her thoughts go on, sliding and slithering away from her.
Jagged Dreams is about sexual tension as it comes against the age-old dilemma of monogamy.
Jagged Dreams is about two lovers on different sides of a considerable age gap. “My very point. Some are growing up, Alex, while some of us are growing old. A lover on each side is what the age-gap is about.” (Emilie)
The slow scraping sound below the door awoke Tamara. Her first eyes-open thought had been that she had dreamt the sound and she had rolled over pulling the eiderdown more tightly around her shoulders. But she heard it again, a very quiet type of scraping, the way one would scrape if not intending to be heard. Not meant to disturb. Tamara sat up, squinting into the darkness.
Scrape … … Scrape.
The scraping stopped but in its stead a softly metallic sound set Tamara’s heart in a frantic beat. Insecure little clicks seemed to be coming from inside the lock to her front | |  | | Morgan in the Mirror
Saint-Clair’s latest novel, Morgan in the Mirror, moves away from her usual lesbian contexts, and tackles the issue of transgenderism – a most relevant matter for the health and survival of humankind because fear of the unfamiliar is part of the global problem of discrimination against ‘the other’.
If our survival as a community is based on our ability to become compassionate, accepting human being capable of caring for each other, even in the absence of understanding, then Saint-Clair tests our readiness by giving us Morgan and the challenge his personal circumstances present to the world.
Gender and sexuality have never been frozen in binary oppositions of either/or, but have always existed as mere stations along a rich and gloriously multicoloured continuum.
Christen discovered this truism after her own surprising heart-connection with Maddy but
can she now accept Morgan, her new love interest, as he stands before her at the mid-point of his trans-gender journey from female to male?
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Risking–me is about taking risks. It is about facing, rather than hiding from one’s insecurities.
Risking–me is about triggers.
What prompts Emilie to involve herself with one woman as opposed to another? Forced to make more choices that are emotionally draining and risky, Emilie has no choice but to find herself and confront some of her hang-ups.
But above all, Risking – me is as sexy and sensual as it is relevant to the modern lesbian reader.
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Silent Goodbyes is about the premature end of a relationship; about sexual desire and tension; about making choices. It raises questions of fidelity and of coming to terms with one’s shortcomings. It is about saying hello to life and falling in love.
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