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Charity Norman, whose life like mine has been shared between England and New Zealand, writes psychological dramas dealing with sensitive subjects in domestic settings. This novel was published in 2015 when there was less public awareness about “gender dysphoria” than there is today. Luke Livingstone is a respected solicitor, happily married with two children, outwardly a typical male leading a conventional life. But since early childhood he has felt like a woman born into a man’s body, and keeping this secret has gradually become too much too bear. Having been narrowly dissuaded from suicide by a stranger he decides to reveal the truth, but is initially met by hostile disbelief from all sides and a violent family crisis. I found it a gripping read.
What do you do when you find that your husband - your father, your son - is not who you thought? Can you ever love him again? A beautifully written, sensitive and witty novel of a family in utter chaos.
Girl meets boy. They fall in love, and they marry.
For thirty years they share one another's lives.
That should have been the end of the story.
Luke Livingstone is a lucky man. He's a father and grandfather, a respected solicitor, a pillar of the community. He has a loving wife in Eilish, children who adore him and an idyllic…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
Combining my interest in spiritualism with the psychological aspects of military history, this book written over 100 years ago is still relevant today. Sir Oliver Lodge was an eminent physicist and electrical engineer, also a pioneer of the spiritualist movement in the UK. His youngest son Raymond volunteered for the Army during World War One and his letters home, reproduced in the first part of the book, give a vivid picture of life in the trenches of the Western Front. After Raymond is killed in action his father sets out on a series of anonymous sittings with various mediums, which yield convincing evidence of Raymond’s survival in the afterlife. The last section draws on philosophy, biology, physics and the author’s own theories about consciousness and mind-body-spirit connections. He stresses the importance of keeping an open mind, being willing to revise firmly held beliefs and admit the limitations of current scientific…
English physicist Sir Oliver Lodge lost his son Raymond in World War One. He and his wife were committed spiritualists, and they claimed to have been contacted by Raymond's spirit from the afterlife.
This book is split into three parts. The first is dubbed the 'Normal Portion', which is a biographical account of Raymond's life, his enrollment in the British Army, his letters and correspondence, and finally the fateful day in which he died fighting on the Western Front. Finally, a series of condolences from his fellow soldiers and ranking officers are included, attesting to the young man's strength of…
