Nefertiti Street

ave you ever had a gut feeling or a niggling voice in your head telling you that you are not living the life you feel you want to live?

Have you been on the verge of making serious choices about your life but hesitated to take the risk due to lack of courage or fear of what others might think of you?

In the late 1980s, Pamela Bradley was living a comfortable existence in an affluent Sydney suburb. She’d been married for over twenty-five years, had three grown sons and a steady job teaching History. Yet she was becoming increasingly fearful of not having enough time left to follow the path her inner voice had been urging her to take since childhood.

Nefertiti Street is the story of how she took that path and changed her life by embarking on a series of physical, emotional and spiritual journeys to Egypt between 1989 and 1994. While she was seeking adventure, taking risks and experiencing challenges in that alien culture, she re-evaluated her life.

Ultimately she ended her long and traditional marriage and went to live on her own in the inner city of Sydney Although not looking for another partner, she eventually found love in Egypt but was faced with the fact that the man with whom she felt a deep soul connection was not only 28 years her junior but a Muslim. After much analysis and soul-searching, she decided to risk being branded a ‘cradle snatcher, ‘a seducer’, ‘a mad woman’, and to go with her heart.

To live the life she wanted she had to ignore what people thought of her and embrace the unknown. In 1994 she married her Egyptian love and prepared to move into uncharted territory.

• It is about having the courage to travel down a new path in life without knowing were it will lead.
• It reveals facets of an entirely different culture.
• It helps us see that love does not take age into account.
• It encourages us to take responsibility for the choices we make in life.