Exploring what it means to “come home”, the importance of memories. and the question of belonging, including discovering one’s own way of becoming a Pākehā as a newly migrated New Zealand woman.From Error to Error is a literary and psychological part-memoir. It follows a young woman on her journey of errors, as she leaves her troubled tribe of Eastern European heritage and sets about finding a new one, leaving her country and her past behind.Familiar and collaborating yet not driven by confession-mindedness or self-justification.
The story explores female and male relationships at cultural intersections previously unimaginable to the protagonist. It opens an intimate window to one difficult father-daughter relationship. It is a love story and a story of friendships, their value, and their cost. A discourse on a life lived on the edge of reason, undistorted by idealised or catastrophised memories. Deeply disinterested in moral judgments or decorative literary flourishes, it tells how, From Error to Error, one discovers the entire truth…
MK was born in 1976 in former Czechoslovakia. Discontented with her world shaping in Orwell’s 1984 vision, she left in 1995, eventually settling in London. She learned English as an au-pair and later studied law while a trainee in a city law firm. Her academic journey continued with Master’s with Merit in Classical History and later Master’s with Merit in Social Sciences.A member of the British Psychoanalytic Council and the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, MK is a practising psychotherapist.

Exploring what it means to “come home”, the importance of memories. and the question of belonging, including discovering one’s own way of becoming a Pākehā as a newly migrated New Zealand woman.From Error to Error is a literary and psychological part-memoir. It follows a young woman on her journey of errors, as she leaves her troubled tribe of Eastern European heritage and sets about finding a new one, leaving her country and her past behind.Familiar and collaborating yet not driven by confession-mindedness or self-justification.

The story explores female and male relationships at cultural intersections previously unimaginable to the protagonist. It opens an intimate window to one difficult father-daughter relationship. It is a love story and a story of friendships, their value, and their cost. A discourse on a life lived on the edge of reason, undistorted by idealised or catastrophised memories. Deeply disinterested in moral judgments or decorative literary flourishes, it tells how, From Error to Error, one discovers the entire truth…

A gripping and touching psychological drama In her debut novel, Monika Killeen explores the mother-daughter relationship with clarity and honesty. Spanning four generations of daughters, their lives shaped by the turmoil of Eastern Europe in the twentieth century, An Inflammable Act of Kindness follows Meli on her journey from the shadows of her small town to the glaring blaze of the Dream City.
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