Angel Journey
Suzanne Power
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Book
€14.99
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Publication date: 2010
ISBN: 978-1-907535-14-7
Category: Mind, body, spirit
Type: Paperback
Price: €14.99
Journey books bring both fear and desire. There are no maps. The beginning of this book brought a question: what need are angels answering in the psyche?
The answer brought the author to a realisation she imagined was impossible and back to a way of life she thought she had lost.
When Suzanne Power began she had ‘a loosely crocheted’ faith, and no definitive view on angels. Her openness to the voice and experiences of others and her honesty about her own story made the journey a test of faith and a testament to taking the road less travelled. She found the angel of the unknown, the angel in us all and the angel in herself.
She found that the Irish storytelling instinct, the Irish thirst for spirit, has not been stifled. The discovery of self is more vital in these new times. Many of the incredible stories that comprise Angel Journey involve water, as a symbol not just of physical voyage but of the deep unknown, the waters within us to navigate.
The book did not rest until Suzanne rang the final doorbell and the person who answered it offered the last synchronicity in a story that seemed to govern itself.
Eighteen months after it began, Angel Journey is about God’s messengers and messages. It’s a book about angels. But not about chants or gilt, cards or divination. It’s a book about light and dark; about personal triumphs and nervous breakdowns; about catastrophe and rebuild; about the messages from spirit that get us through reality. Part memoir, part encounter, Angel Journey is about divine moments and the people in them. It’s a document of hope and honesty from a brave and thoughtful traveller.
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About the author
Suzanne Power was born in Dublin in 1968. She has been writing she was eight years old and Her books have sold rights to territories worldwide. She has contributed to several non-fiction and short-story anthologies.
For fifteen years she has been an editor, reviewer and columnist with many of Ireland’s leading newspapers and magazines. She has a longstanding column in the Evening Herald and wrote the successful ‘Spiritual Sunday’ series which ran in the Sunday Tribune. She has worked as a broadcaster, writer and researcher for BBC, ITV and RTE.
Suzanne has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and a BA in Journalism from DIT. She works at NUI Maynooth and its Kilkenny outreach campus, as well as in community settings. Her workshops attract a following as she believes in the writing community and the spirit of imagination. She has worked on that basis with everyone from school refusers to the terminally ill. She mentors and edits anthologies for writing communities that have attracted national interest and coverage in media.
Suzanne was a Fish Short Story competition winner.
She lives in rural County Wexford in what she describes as ‘an eventful utopia’.