“SHE is the most remarkable person I ever met, but there are limits even to true devotion … We must make less noise, but being quiet is not in her nature.”
A tour de force of suspense that challenges us with ideas from a deep past as well as ideas belonging to our own time. At one level it is a tale of love winning through against the odds, but those odds are so extraordinary that we are provoked into re-assessing our attitudes towards nature, magic and the meaning of community and rebellion…
Do not read the end of this novel before you get to it. When you do read it you will find that you have to think very hard indeed about your reaction!
…a novel which explores a modern religious cult… The characters are believable and sympathetically portrayed, even the unlikable ones. I found it very difficult to put down, and wanted to find out the answers to the many questions which the author tantalisingly placed throughout. The story goes along at a cracking pace, right until the end. A good read indeed. Amazon verified purchase
It is 1997. As a new millennium approaches, Michaela buries her old life on a Welsh hillside and begins her mission.
When Dorian, a freelance photographer for the tabloids, is sent to cover the ‘Michaela phenomenon’, he finds himself transfixed by her presence. Jaded and adrift, Dorian knows only the realities captured by his camera until Michaela opens to him a world of visions and revelations.
But who is she: truly God’s instrument or simply a charlatan? For all her inexplicable gifts of healing and foresight, Michaela is also capable of implacable cruelty and dictatorial caprice, even to those she values most. And as her mission spirals towards its disturbing climax, Dorian asks whether human love, however messy and imperfect, should outweigh divine truth.
A gripping novel that questions our perceptions of humanity and divinity, representation and reality, madness and sanity.
The Velvet Trumpet
by D.S. Lewis