![]() ![]() My heroine was going to have to time-travel to meet these women, (one woman, really, repeated and repeated) but I didn’t want a time machine because they tend to take over. (This was news at the time, and the papers were full of her, though of course they got a lot of the science wrong.) I set my framework story in the future, when the Eve myth would have dwindled to a cheap TV cartoon. After my failure to do what I’d originally intended with Merlin Dreams (see below), I still wanted to explore the development of one of our major myths, and thought I’d try and do something with the various First Women that people have imagined at different times - Eve of course, and the shadowy figures of classical myth, and as many of the other cultural traditions I could find and work in, as well as “African Eve”, the single unknown ancestress whom mitochondrial research suggests must have existed in Africa a few hundred thousand years ago. I had no intention of writing Eva when I fed the first blank sheet into my typewriter. Author CommentĨ0% of my mail, almost all of it from the USA, is about this one book. But her new body brings with it elements of the chimpanzee nature to which she then has to adjust, and at the same time cope with the attempts of powerful commercial interests to exploit her unique status. A girl, horrendously injured in a road accident, is given the body of chimpanzee to replace her human body and let her inner self continue living. ![]()
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