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Alice Allan

Open your eyes to Addis Ababa

  (www.tripfiction.com) I lived in Ethiopia for four years when my young family and I were posted there with my husband’s job. As a diplomatic family, we’d lived abroad before, but Ethiopia got under my skin like nowhere else. My book, Open My Eyes, That I May See Marvellous Things, is set in Addis Ababa. […]Read Post ›

Cloth mothers; where do comfort objects fit into attachment parenting?

My  favorite childhood toy, or to coin the great British psychologist D.W Winnicott’s phrase, my transitional object, was (actually he still is) a puffin. He was given to me when I was two and quickly usurped a boss-eyed white bear to which I had previously been attached. I was faithful only to Puffin throughout my […]Read Post ›

Just Back: following General Napier in Ethiopia

Getachew gestures expansively at the massive range of flat- topped mountains before us. “This place, Ethiopia,” he muses, “is very up. Very down.” He’s not wrong. The drive to Magdala, Emperor Tewodros’s mountain fortress, takes 10 hours by 4×4 from Addis Ababa, rising slowly until the final hairpin ascent beneath sheer cliffs. Inspired by Philip […]Read Post ›

Alice Allan

Welcome! I’m a writer, communications consultant and lactation consultant who has worked all over the world and written about a lot of it. With my background in Public Health, infant feeding and international development, I create powerful communications for NGOs that persuade, provoke and inspire. I’ve written an award winning novel, Open My Eyes, (Pinter […]Read Post ›

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