This author crafts fiction after a career as a photographer and journalist. Her journalistic work, particularly concerning education, inspired her two non-fiction books. She now focuses on fiction, a lifelong dream, with her debut novel exploring a woman tricked into a Victorian asylum. Her writing delves into the psychological depths of her characters, offering a unique perspective on their experiences.
Exploring the transformative power of words, this self-help guide emphasizes the importance of positive thinking and affirmations in achieving success. Florence Scovel Shinn presents practical advice on how to harness the spoken word as a tool for manifesting desires and overcoming obstacles. Drawing on biblical principles, the book offers insights into the connection between mental attitudes and life outcomes, encouraging readers to adopt a mindset that aligns with their goals for personal growth and fulfillment.
Harriet Heron's life is almost over before it has even begun. At just twenty-three years of age, she is an invalid, over-protected and reclusive. Before it is too late, she must escape the fog of Victorian London for a place where she can breathe. Together with her devoted mother, Louisa, her god-fearing aunt, Yael, and a book of her own spells inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Harriet travels to a land where the air is tinged with rose and gold and for the first time begins to experience what it is to live. But a chance meeting on the voyage to Alexandria results in a dangerous friendship as Louisa's long-buried past returns, in the form of someone determined to destroy her by preying upon her daughter. As Harriet journeys towards a destiny no one could have foreseen, her aunt Yael is caught up in an Egypt on the brink of revolt and her mother must confront the spectres of her own youth. Award-winning journalist and writer Wendy Wallace spins a tale of three women caught between propriety and love on a journey of cultural awakening through an exquisitely drawn Egypt. In prose both sumptuous and mesmeric, she conjures a sensibility akin to that of E M Forster and Merchant Ivory.
