What the book is about
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Marcia is trapped in a loveless marriage. Her hopes of saving the marriage by having a child are dashed when the baby is born faceless and dies. Shame, hurt and despair become warring factions within herself that threaten to split her personality into three. Worn out by it all she retreats further and further until her refuge becomes a wasteland of frozen hopelessness.
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Nights full of awful dreams are followed by days full of upsetting dimensions that make her question her sanity. Unable to give up she crawls doggedly through one nightmare memory after another until she comes out the other end. There she manages to put the past to rest.
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Eyes Of Darkness is the first book in a mini-series of three psychological thrillers on the theme of recovery from trauma.
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How the book came to be written
The short answer to this is: curiosity. All the books in Journeys into the Heartland started with a question I wanted to know the answer to. The long answer is somewhat more complex.
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Years ago I watched a programme about split personalities on BBC or maybe it was ITV. I don't remember.
The interviewee was a fairly hefty woman who was convinced she was not only herself but also French king Louis XIV. During the interview she in fact seemed to change into this royal alter ego. She became Louis XIV or at least a person of royal descent who may or may not have been Louis XIV.
With that her mannerisms changed into those of a man. That may not seem much in these days of transgender issues but the change was visible in her eyes. There was a noticeable shift. I found that extremely scary. So much so that I turned off the tele and have been sorry ever since I did so.
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I wondered what it must be like to be two people at the same time and to be aware of this as well. I read up on split personalities and I expected Eyes Of Darkness to be all about that. Not so.
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When I finally started to listen to my heroine instead of my own thoughts a completely different tale unfolded. It was Marcia who took me down her road of unravelling and healing and thereby got the book written. I learned a lot from her.
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