Chris Minaar is a distinguished South African writer an old writer but awriter who has lost whatever gift he had for writing. It is on New Years Evecourtesy of ... » 

Chris Minaar is a distinguished South African writer an old writer but awriter who has lost whatever gift he had for writing. It is on New Years Evecourtesy of his stalled car that he meets Rachel a young sculptress whobecomes the great love of his life a love greater for being unfulfilled. Hefinds himself captivated by Rachel and drawn into a close friendship with herhusband. As their friendship develops Chris must reconcile himself to anunaccustomed type of intimacy but one that inevitably threatens this precarioustriangular relationship. Woven through this is the story of his life and of alifetimes loving. For he has known many women. As it becomes clear that thisbook is the final writing act of Chriss creative life so we understand thatthese recollections are an attempt to bring order to an otherwise chaoticexistence. Before I Forget is the history of a life set against the historyof a nation and the history of a transforming love. «