Kirjahaku

Two people, a world apart, separated by time and grief, their lives destined to converge... but what happens when finally they meet? Almost forty years ago, on an ashram in India, a devastating series of events led to Daniel's complete psychotic breakdown. Since then he has worked hard to remake his identity, keeping his history under wraps. Now a successful psychotherapist, but with his once happy marriage unexpectedly crumbling, Daniel wakes from an ominous dream, warning him that his past is coming back to haunt him. Meanwhile, shocked by her mother's deathbed revelations, Mira is hunting down her father. A lesbian artist, renowned for intimate, erotic photographs of women, she is determined to settle old scores. Love is not initially anywhere on Mira's agenda, yet in meeting the enigmatic Luce she finds a startling twist in her search for truth.Daniel's tortured memories, recorded in his journal, connect the present with his mysterious past. What really did happen in India? Daniel's wife Callie also has secrets, and her reasons for keeping them. Can their relationship survive? And what will happen when Mira confronts the realities of her own beginnings and the story that has sustained her whole identity?This original and complexly layered novel reveals the shifting nature of truth, the indestructible depth of human connection, the power of negative enchantment, and ultimately the redemptive spirit of love.

You will find dark humour within these pages, but also a narrative arrow pointing you towards truths about human nature. Some characters stand at a turning point leading to new awareness, or dangerous uncharted waters. Some demonstrate the intricacy of intimate relationships, revealing dashed expectations and surprising new horizons. The human spirit is indomitable, as is our capacity for investing hope. Stories help us make sense of what we feel and think, reminding us that our ambivalence and complexity of emotions are familiar to all. They reassure us that however lonely we may feel, we are not alone. In the byzantine twists and turns of their fortunes, the people you meet here will be poignantly recognisable - not angels or monsters, but just like you.These stories originally appeared in Kindle books as 'Not Like Other People' and 'Without A Safety Net'.

Since early childhood, Verity has been haunted by the dream of meeting her twin soul. Is such a thing even possible? She thinks she might have found him in Ned, but is he all that he seems? No one and nothing in this novel is as straightforward as it first appears, including Verity. Sometimes it takes other people to help us discover who we truly are, and the lengths we will go to when pushed. A compelling psychological mystery with the notion of true love at its heart, The Other Twin explores the noxious legacy of suspicion, hatred, revenge, and duplicity - and asks of the reader: just who can you trust?