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In 'Seven For A Secret' Holly
and George sneak out of a gloomy bereavement party, held in
memory of their sister Helen, who had died suddenly, a year
earlier. Outside they meet six mischievous Magpies who whisk
them away on a magical adventure to meet Helen in an
unimaginably beautiful other-world. Here they come to understand
how to live through their loss in a positive, playful and
productive way.
The
timeless secrets of the universe are revealed to them from all
sorts of unexpected encounters: Old Harry - Helen’s kind,
eccentric Guide; the dashing Jody - a young Kite-surfing expert;
an Angel, the ever-present magpies, a Rock, a Lake, the Wind and
many other colourful characters, who guide them towards an
empowering and calm acceptance of life’s challenges, choices and
delights.
Available now!
£9.99 +p&p
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Reviews...Reviews...Reviews...
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James’ style of writing is imaginative, thought provoking and
totally engaging. Within the first three pages I was hooked and
found it very difficult to put down. Not only is a fabulous
story, as it unfolds, the characters invite us to consider where
we are in our lives and how ultimately we will choose to say
goodbye to this journey on earth.
I am reading it to my godchildren whose grandfather has recently
died. They may not yet fully understand the impact of what is
currently happening to them but the insights they are getting
will be invaluable in the future as they grow up. For most of
the time they just think that they are listening to a wonderful
adventure story.
Thank you James for your creativity and thoughtfulness. I
recommend this book most highly.
Rob Brown - MD
360degreepeople.co.uk
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The Inwardness of Nature...
To someone who has long
struggled with abstract art this collection came rather as a
revelation. The artist seems to hit the spot between
representation and abstraction, and open up to this viewer, and
reader, a genuinely new vision. Far more than usually, I felt I
was seeing something new through the artist's eyes and, more
important, feeling something new through his feelings. Now I
know that may be an illusion, at least partly, for it is
integral to art's mystery that the artist opens up individual
feelings, which may not be his or her own. Detouring round this
question of aesthetics, I can say quite honestly that many of
the pictures here left me feeling a bit like stout Cortez,
"silent upon a peak in Darien." I have never seen nature like
this, but the funny thing is that looking in a kind of quizzical
way at them, I had an overwhelming sense not of seeing nature
but of feeling it in a strange kind of active passivity. I mean
that some part of my mind was trying to interpret, but another
kind was simply accepting. At least, that's what I think I mean.
I can't recall any other book, or visit to a gallery, that has
had such a powerful effect. Made me rather speechless.
F.C. Parkinson
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