“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned” William Congreve in The Mourning Bride 1697 February 14th, that special romantic day for those who love and who are loved, heralds a pinkfest of flowers, chocolates, hearts, romantic dinners and loving gifts. Saint Valentine’s day: celebrating loving and being loved. There can be fun for single people too: match-making parties, anonymous Valentines, mystery lovers.  You may not have a special love right …

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      “As the secrets and lies unfolded, I got caught up in both the storyline and the experience.  I say the experience because the author manages to evoke the feelings of tension and release that occur with suppression and catharsis.”  (Alexandra Dodgson-Liosatos)     I’m having a particularly lovely time at the moment, hearing from people who enjoyed reading Honor’s Shadow over the Christmas holidays, and have written to tell me of their experiences. What strikes me most …

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“Our genes have an innate knowledge of family networks”   Al Pesso Could this possibly be true?  that our genes, as well as passing on to us all of our physical characteristics such as our eye and hair colour, and some of our mental capacities, also hold unconscious memory traces of our ancestral families?  That some of our behaviours and values are passed down through our genes, in some way?  Plenty of evidence is pointing in this direction: it is …

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“Every individual’s life is a novel. You and I, we live as part of an invisible web, a web we also help to weave. Yet if we open up our perception… and learn to hear and see what is difficult to hear and see – then we can grasp, better understand, hear and see the repetitions and coincidences in our family history, and our individual lives can become clearer. We can become more aware of who we are and who …

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