The latest by Valerie Georgeson - Published February 2022

Reviews

This is an astonishing book: sometimes fearful; at times extremely sad; yet at all times a testament to one womans strength in fighting forces of loss, darkness and grief. Valerie Georgeson interweaves her seasoned novelists storytelling skill with an anthropologists forensic documentation in exploring one of contemporary societys murkiest regions: the transgressional and all-consuming power of the fundamentalist cult. What is outstanding is the protagonists journeying into some of the darkest places a human soul can be taken, whilst retaining faith and emerging with renewed courage. Most remarkably, the illuminative narrative art remains unhampered. - Colin Mills (Honorary Research Fellow, University of Manchester, UK). 

I have just put down your book for the first time since opening it - except for food and sleep breaks ! I doubt I have ever read a braver or more searingly honest portrayal of a life in captivity. Without your profound faith, your courage and your long association with writing, It seems unlikely that anything like this would have seen the light of day. Even as a straightforward emotional and spiritual journey, it is extraordinary in its delivery of  pain, comfort. and hope, where disillusion, collapse and bitterness might have been the easier destinations.... 

So thank you for the insights into realms of experience that are beyond my protective "bravery circle". Most of us have one, but few are strong enough to seek beyond and survive to create a new and purposeful way of living. Your book is a blazing beacon against submission to false testimony and abandonment of self in spiritual transactions.- Judy Meewezen,(novelist and journalist -author's website – www.judymeewezen.net)

 

Interview with the author:

https://youtu.be/ok0r5WNaijQ

 

 

 

 

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About the Author

Valerie Georgeson was born in South Shields in the north east of England in 1945. After taking a degree in Drama & Theatre Arts, and English Lit at Birmingham University, she became an actress and later a novelist. She has in the course of her career been a member of British Actor's Equity, the Samaritans, the International Dance Teachers Association, The Writers' Guild, BAFTA, the Society of Authors and the British Association of Iconographers. She now lives in France with her husband, a European Geordie expat.