When Tom Keneally dared his daughter to finish his half-written manuscript, Meg Keneally was daunted. But it ended up being ‘the most valuable gift’
There’s a thick and slightly battered volume on my bookshelf, with a line drawing of a man in a deerstalker hat. The book, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, has an inscription on the cover page. It reads: “To Meg, who has made and will make great fantasies of her own. Love, your father.” The date he has written is that of my 12th birthday.
Until recently, those fantasies were just that. They clogged my hard drive with manuscripts that will never (and don’t deserve to) see daylight. And they ultimately receded under the onslaught of daily life.
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