Brigitta (90) up with schrijversdebuut: My book is an ode to the life

Ghent On your ninetieth extract with a schrijversdebuut. For the Ghent Brigitta Simoens was the dream to reality. Her autobiography, ‘Ebb&Flood’ reads like a tgv. To the rhythm of her life. The mother of five was during her rich life doktersvrouw, manageress of a successful restaurant and businesswoman. They helped with the famous nightclub Zillion organization and may singer-songwriter Joost Zweegers was a personal friend. “My book is an ode to life.”

On her 88th pulled them even on a trek through Norway. “Just because I felt like it”, laughs the charming Brigitta. “But you can call me feel free, " Mama Git’. All my friends call me so.” It characterizes the charming ninety-year-old. If you are her age do not know, you estimate her as twenty years younger. And so she acted. Those who thought that the endearing " Mama Git’ with her Noorwegentrip to the last stunt of her life was busy, has the wrong. Since this week is the schrijversdebuut ‘Eb&Vloed’ by Brigitta at Standard Bookstore. “On my 87th I am starting to write,” she says. “Not with the ambition to be an author, but simply because I felt my story had to share. I wanted my leave traces.”

Entree dans le monde

To detect a defect. For months, saw her children how she, in her apartment in Ghent's Zuidpark", buried under papers, boxes of letters and photos, was writing. “There is a lot to tell.” In the first chapters tells Brigitta in a compelling style about her childhood in the besieged city of Ypres. We make her school involved in Roesbrugge Damen’ and in an expensive boarding-school in Bruges. Through the eyes of the city girl that she was, she describes with gusto the life of her family members. Also from the carefully mapped ‘entree dans le monde,’ we can be a witness.