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Meet the Author, HELEN O\u2019NEILL, in conversation with Suzanne Leal<\/strong>
\n Thursday 21 April\u00a0 2016\u00a0 6.30-8pm Waverley Library<\/strong><\/p>\n

I attended an interesting conversation in 2016 at the Waverley Library, Bondi Junction, Sydney, between Susanne Leal, journalist and author, and Helen O\u2019Neill, whose recently published book, Daffodil: Biography of a Flower<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 was a contender for the 2016 Waverley Library Nib Award.<\/p>\n

This was the fifteenth anniversary of this generous competition, in which judges select a winning entry based on literary merit and evidence of in-depth research.<\/p>\n

Helen started out by recounting a short personal biography, telling of a rather uprooted childhood in the UK, travelling around because of her father\u2019s work, until the family settled, when she was thirteen, in Southern England: \u201cIn Midsomer Murders\u201d territory\u201d. Helen spoke with passion about her subject, an interest and love originally inspired by her mother\u2019s growing daffodil obsession; the latter was surprised to win silver cups for her specimens three years in a row. She then started sketching the flowers from her garden, showing the different colours and shapes and sizes of each one, prompted by a desire to understand more about the flower, its propagation and its background.<\/p>\n

The talk moved, with prompts from Suzanne, through a video showing of delightful pictures from the book, to some startling facts about the flower and its bulbs. We learnt that the genus Narcissus contains 30, 000 different species. The Greek myth of vain Narcissus was discussed, and the fact that the Romans linked the daffodil to death; then it was on to some fascinating myths, including the daffodil\u2019s toxicity and supposed potential for murdering husbands via daffodil water. Before 1800, its symbolism was mostly negative, a weed, linked to Catholicism during the religious wars, and to jaundice.<\/p>\n

However today, it is probably the most widely loved and best known flower, with very positive symbolism: \u201cThe daffodil is the beautiful first flower of spring, the inspiration of poets, a treasure-trove to scientists and a symbol of everything from unrequited love and rebirth to eternal life and misfortune.\u201d And it is now used across the world to raise funds for cancer research.<\/p>\n

The trigger for creating this beautiful tome, was Helen\u2019s brush with breast cancer, requiring urgent surgery and drug therapy treatments, that left her depleted and with a \u201cchemo brain\u201d, as she called it. This personal wintery-like entrapment occurred, ironically, during a Sydney summer, with temperatures soaring into the 40 degrees. It was her brother\u2019s photos of daffodils, and lovely daffodil cards from friends and family, that inspired her with hope for the future, and helped her to recover quite quickly, and to feel up to a visit back to England.<\/p>\n

Helen read out a beautifully written excerpt from the book, the language at times quirky, at times simple and personal, and always lovely and poetic. Here is a short excerpt from the very end of the book: \u201cI drifted further into the daffodil meadows and it was there that I saw it\u2014a single, perfect Narcissus poeticus<\/em> in bloom. Instinctively I did what I used to do as a tiny child. I dropped down onto my knees and then sank further until I was lying, front first, on the grassy earth. Around me Narcissus<\/em> leaves and stems swayed to the breeze\u2019s silent rhythm. Insects darted into view and hovered. Time slowed down, then seemed to freeze. The little daffodil faced me. When I remember that moment I can smell Narcissus poeticus<\/em> still.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the final messages from the author is how it is the things we look at every day, and that we just take for granted, are often the harbourers of an unimaginable world of meaning, waiting to be discovered, if only we take the time to dig a little deeply.<\/p>\n

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This book was recently short-listed for the prestigious Nib Award by the Waverley Library.<\/p>\n

Other books by Helen are: Broadhurst: Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives, <\/em>based on the wallpaper and fabric designer Florence Broadhurst\u2019s life; and A Singular Vision, <\/em>the biography of architect Harry Seidler.<\/p>\n

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Daffodils<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wandered lonely as a cloud<\/div>\n
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,<\/div>\n
When all at once I saw a crowd,<\/div>\n
A host, of golden daffodils;<\/div>\n
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,<\/div>\n
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\u00a0Continuous as the stars that shine<\/div>\n
And twinkle on the milky way,<\/div>\n
They stretched in never-ending line<\/div>\n
Along the margin of a bay:<\/div>\n
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,<\/div>\n
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.<\/div>\n

by William Wordsworth<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"daffodils-in-a-field\"<\/p>\n

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