Novelist Robert Barclay

As there is an official day for more or less every cause and circumstance in society, I am well pleased to discover that the eleventh of October each year is dedicated to “the girl child” and for trafficked children everywhere.

My third novel, The Body Shop, is a murder mystery novel featuring Katy and Clara Yehonala in their most dangerous adventure. I’m looking for fabulous ideas from readers for a global fashion and cosmetics brand name.

Many of us remember the movie The Killing Fields, and awful as it was, it was a true crime story made about a land most of us knew little about.

The Sunlight Foundation is part of a movement that gives children their lives back. It is the very least they deserve, as fellow humans on the same planet as you and I.

It steals their childhood and their lives. Life expectancy is short, most don’t live beyond twenty. If they do they replay the horrors, many finding respite in drugs or suicide. 

For those of us prescient in the 1960s, and those born much later, the name Holly Golightly is synonymous with sex and sophistication in the best romance novels. Even teenagers know who invented the LBD.

In many developing countries, women are still treated as commodities. Perpetuated by myths among their men that sex with virgins gives them “magical superpowers”, virginity is big business.

Thanks to pioneers like Freud who described Madonna Whore syndrome, we can solve the problems that bedevil healthy marital relationships and find a modern, practical solution from the oldest profession in the world.