Solomon's Pond
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Solomon’s Pond discusses life through the twists and turns of growing older, caring for sick parents and the challenges of an uninspiring career. Told through the voice of Thalia, a thirty something college teacher, who discovers all is not right within the world, or at least the world she has created, as she wonders where she is truly meant to be and if her ‘chosen’ career path was really her choice after all.
The book is part of a trilogy which has its origins in Celtic Christianity and features the first of the three main components: Pilgrimage. The other two books in the series focus on Individuality and Freedom.
The book is set out in a way that readers can dip in and out of it at any time and still follow the story. It is broken into three main parts: Body, Mind and Soul in which all these correspond to what is happening in Thalia’s life, including her career which is going from bad to worse, directed by her spineless boss, Loki. This includes finding out about a secret double funding enterprise going on in her very department. Thalia experiences excruciating headaches and ill health which begin to change her views on life and death, especially when she finally discovers what she is suffering from.
Sarah Coyne was born in Wiltshire to a Celtic family which held to traditional beliefs especially around food and the seasons. Her father was a chef who worked for several aristocratic families and her mother was the housekeeper. As such, Sarah spent part of her childhood at Buscot Park in Oxfordshire and Tyntesfield in Somerset before the family returned to Lincolnshire. Sarah lived and worked in Italy and the USA before moving to London where she worked in education for many years. She has a degree in Religious Studies and recently completed her Masters in Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln. She is currently working on her PhD. Sarah has been a writer for many years with several books in genres that include mental health, disabilities and the subsequent societal perceptions of these. She writes under a pseudonym for two other genres and is signed to Llewellyn Publishers as Tudor Beth and to Hawkwood Books as Flora-Beth Edwards. She also has written for many magazines including Spirit & Destiny, Soul & Spirit, and has an online column for Kindred Spirit. Her novel Solomon's Pond is part of a trilogy of which she is currently working on the second part.