The Up Coming Book

YESTERDAY, TODAY & FOREVER

The true story of Life before Life, This Life and the Next

 

By Ginny Brock

Author of "By Morning's Light".

 

Is entering the editing stage of its current incarnation, and I hope to have it in circulation within the year.

 

It begins where we all did, in Africa.

 

High on the plains above the escarpment, a white child is embraced by the gentle brown spirit of her Zulu nanny, who introduces her to invisible people of the plains - animal and human - and the all-powerful Sangomas. Those multi-dimensional beings - part human, part wild animal part, spirit who live in the crater; who can fix everything from broken minds and bodies to broken dolls.  

 

Carrying the memories she's always had of "another place - where the light can sing, and animals speak, a place that feels like Sataday morning..." the child grows up across the wide canvas of Colonial Africa, learning to recognize the faces of those people from the Other Side - knowing that she can talk to them, and hear what they are saying.

 

Across the deep valley of the rift, the flooding lowlands of the Great Zambesi, and the far flung Islands of the Aldabra archipelago. The journey continues, to the giddy heights of the Seychelles, whose mountains are alive with gris gris, flaunting a beauty that must surely belong to the Garden of Eden or the devil himself. It is a place of a place of good and evil, languishing in a comedy of errors orchestrated by a lofty British Administration. An Administration, who may as well be wearing red coats in the tropics, as those ostrich plumes waving giddily atop headgear, riding the only Roll Royce on the islands, delivering mandates to a population who could care less; sipping Pink gins, lounging in flappy-legged shorts. "Good God! who ever heard of wearing underwear in the tropics, what!" Chortle, chortle.

 

Funny people make their way through the pages, flanked by funny ghosts and displaced Americans. A love story, that could have been forever, walks beside great human tragedy - walks among the spirits of forever, winding back to the land where it all began, to rendezvous again with the ghosts of Africa - Yesterday, Today and Forever.

 

The book is part memoire - and part entertaining lesson in how to speak to ghosts. A vividly written story, painted with the flame and indigo of Africa, the deep blues and milky greens of Indian ocean and the Persian Gulf and white, white sands of Arabia.

 

It's a trip! One I invite you to take as I begin to litter the blog with tidbits to  to whet your appetite.  Bon Apetit! And, watch this space.