MICHAEL

‘So, about Michael – I have to admit I hadn’t planned a sequel book, but since you appear to be holding it in your hands… These things seem to creep up on you; a page in one’s diary, two pages, the same tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, it soon mounts up. People ask me if I myself, am Greta Burgin, and if the first book, ‘in defence of men,’ is autobiographical. Well, if any of you know me by any of my other works you’ll know that is definitely not so. They also ask if my Greta was a real person. I say, take your pick from any one of the 50,000 Bosnian rape victims, that’s male as well as female, you’ll find a little of Greta Burgin in each one of them. Then they ask if I know her personally. Again the answer must be no, not really. We were just, as the saying goes, ‘strangers passing in the night;’ a fleeting amorous dalliance, this and a lot of hard work and research, plus the horrifying realization that such a thing, another holocaust, could have happened, almost unnoticed, in my lifetime.’