Transforming Pandora
We meet Pandora at a crossroads in her life. Mike, her first love and second husband, has just died from a heart attack and she is feeling overwhelmed with grief. He was the love of her life, her soul mate, now she is questioning how she can go on without him. Her former employee talks her into attending a service at a spiritualist chapel where a clairvoyant tells her that Mike didn't suffer and that he loved her. Pandora takes all this with a grain of salt but, towards the end of the evening, a Higher Spirit comes through, instructing her to start meditating so she can connect with him. That evening, she begins to reflect on her past, returning in her thoughts to the 1970s, when her heart was broken for the first time. As with all things in life, particularly Pandora’s, everything happens for a purpose, especially when she has someone like Enoch, the mysterious spirit, leading her towards her ultimate destiny.
Fascinating, interesting, introspective and well written, this could be your story or someone else’s, but regardless, it is a story about coming of age, at whatever age that may be! ~Bluewolf
Squaring Circles
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spirit Pandora, who has now become a sound healer, is shaken by the
sudden death of her mother and puzzled by the appearance of a young
stranger at the funeral. When her mother's grave is disturbed, she
turns detective and finds herself drawn into a world of intrigue,
centring round a devious couple's plot to exploit a healing circle
for their own ends. Her partner Jay's collaboration with an
attractive singer and her own encounter with an old flame add to the
confusion. The twists and turns of her life begin to resemble the
beautiful labyrinth in her garden, but will they lead to happiness or
heartache?
'Squaring
Circles' is a rich and delicious slice of modern British life, topped
off with an intriguing dollop of paranormal whipped cream. This is a
sequel to 'Transforming Pandora', and, like the first instalment,
this is a novel of many characters and almost non-stop conversation,
delightfully narrated by the protagonist, Pandora, now dabbling in
sound healing. Most interestingly, she has a supernatural friend,
Enoch, with whom she occasionally communicates via automatic writing.
Pandora’s beautifully complicated modern family is depicted with
such realism that the plethora of characters comes fully to life, and
we feel happily included in the family. ~Ram
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Carolyn
Mathews, who lives in south east England, started her writing career
by producing reading books for English language learners. Since
retiring from teaching, she's been inspired by an interest in the
mystical to create contemporary fiction which she hopes will satisfy
both the heart and the soul of the readers. Her husband, an ex-police
officer, has no literary ambitions, but her two sons are both
creative, the younger being a computer games producer and the older
writing plays in his spare time. Her grandson, Henry, is only just
learning to read and write, so who knows? She is flying the flag for
all latecomers to fiction writing. "Don't let anyone tell you
you're too old to start. Follow your dream, but don't expect miracles
to fall out of the sky. Miracles happen, but they have to be
accompanied by perspiration as well as inspiration!"
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