Behind the Lion's Head
J Wilson
language
(, Oct. 17, 2017)
Lisbeth was born into the world of extra ordinaries, people with gifts. They live side by side with the ordinaries. When Lisbeth was two years old her father went out to buy a bottle of wine and never returned. Her mother Grace brought her up with the knowledge that he had loved his wife, loved his child, loved his job and was in love with life. So where was he? Did his disappearance have anything to do with his gift?Lisbeth’s gift, like her mother was to see the dead, so they knew he wasn’t dead. Then soon after her sixteenth birthday, her mother died. The family solicitor, himself a gifted man, comes to her rescue by persuading her to work at a B&B near the beach in the small village where she lives. The B&B she soon discovers is not all it seems on the surface. Slowly she discovers it’s magical inhabitants and even members of her family. At home in her small grey stone home, cosy with spells of safety, she is never alone as her mother’s spirit still comforts her there and she has Rhubarb her cat with his own gift, communication.This is a story that encompasses spells and magic, good and evil. It’s about a young girl overcoming shyness and fear to become fulfilled. Mostly it is about her constant hope that she will be reunited with her father.