The latest by Valerie Georgeson - Published February 2022
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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)
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.
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