Beyond the Veil [Paperback]

"is a story of cooperation, truth, hope, kindness and concern. It allows a time for reflection, and demonstrates the richness of life that can come from valuing, understanding and deepening relationships. Author Your book I found most interesting, although I usually have problems with mysticism, premonitions, strange coincidences etc being a very down to earth person. But your plotting was so ingenious that it carried me along to the happy outcome from a straightforward no-nonsense beginning. To complete a work like this must require enormous dedication. Eva Herman - teacher Several different threads, some quite disparate, are deftly and subtly woven together in this book to form a wonderful tapestry. Although one or two readers may be left unaffected by it, I myself keep finding additional pearls of wisdom each time I look at it. The author gently guides the reader towards the 'true' path but lets him make the choice. Her knowledge and wisdom shine from every page. This novel combines many different facts about plants, people, beliefs and suppositions into a superb work of fiction. The author skilfully reveals how, for an increasing number of people, coincidences, chance encounters, flukes and fortuitousness are just myths. Such people dwell in the comfort zones of modern man, allowing him to negate his power to change. The author points the way, and allows each reader to waken up or to doze in comfort. Elizabeth Ward - healer Its gentle pace has a claming effect, but at the same time one wants to know what is going to happen next. The message from it is the importance of friendships, of relationships, and investing in them, working for them. The last pages and final sentences are beautiful. Rose Scott - music teacher When I read this book it affected me in an incredible way. Kendra Gracie - I liked the book. It was a good read. Hope there is another on the way. George McNeil - architect Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Fascinating. Megan Waring - psychologist I enjoyed your book very much. It went on holiday with me to Denmark and it was good company. Betty Burns - retired administrator" --Augur Press

Spiral patterns in a book, a strange tape of music from Russia, and an oddly carved walking stick all have a profound effect on a group of friends in England. Ellen is thirty-something and alone, until a chance meeting with a young widower, Adam Thomas, starts a chain of uncanny events which enthrall and endanger them both. Choice and contingency, happenstance and coincidence all blend to bring the two together, and lift the pall of loss covering their lives. A rich backdrop of music, archaeology, books and plant lore enables the author of Beyond the Veil to touch deeper issues of bereavement, friendship, illness, recovery and the impact of objects from the past on our lives. Altered states, heightened sensitivities and unseen communications are also explored, as is the nature of spiritual ecstasy, in a thoughtful novel that gives separate paths an unusual and satisfying convergence The debut novel from Mirabelle Maslin.

Mirabelle Maslin was born in Birmingham in 1947, and moved to Bramhall, Cheshire in 1952. She studied agriculture at Reading University, after which she worked in scientific research near Edinburgh until the birth of her three children - two sons and a daughter. Since then she has spent more than twenty years helping people with emotional and relationship problems, together with providing nutritional advice where appropriate.