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Finuala Dowling

Side by side

Green House

I live in a large green house
with my daughter and three dogs.
Also here you may find sister,
certainly brother,
and mother (grand).

No husband,
and no cat.

People sometimes ask about the cat.

Finuala Dowling

(South Africa, 1962)

Born in Cape Town in 1962, Finuala was the seventh of eight children of radio broadcasters Eve van der Byl and Paddy Dowling. She studied at UCT and then, after obtaining her MA in English, moved to Pretoria, where she spent eight years teaching English at Unisa. She gave birth to a daughter, Beatrice, in 1993, and while on sabbatical in the village of Riebeek-Kasteel, completed a doctorate (...

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Green House

I live in a large green house
with my daughter and three dogs.
Also here you may find sister,
certainly brother,
and mother (grand).

No husband,
and no cat.

People sometimes ask about the cat.