Bad Weather
Susie Boyt, 6 July 1995
A Match to the Heart: One Woman’s Story of Being Struck by Lightning
by Gretel Ehrlich.
Fourth Estate, 200 pp., £9.99, February 1995,1 85702 293 9 Show More
by Gretel Ehrlich.
Fourth Estate, 200 pp., £9.99, February 1995,
“... a storm – you know – weather.’ Reeling from her experience as a lightning-strike victim, Gretel Ehrlich attempts to find a context for what happened to her, and she does this by asking lots of wild questions: ‘I don’t know if I am alive, but if not, how do I know I am dead?’ ‘Had I been shot in the back?’ ‘Had I suffered a stroke or ... ”
