A Piece of Time

By Traci Harding

Enter a world of mystery and hauntings fair and foul ...
A fabulously spooky ghost story from one of Voyager's bestselling authors, traci Harding.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
• Release date: Jan 9, 2012
• ISBN: 9781743096260

Traci Harding

Traci Harding is one of Australia's best loved and most prolific authors. Her stories blend fantasy, fact, esoteric belief, time travel and quantum physics, into adventurous romps through history, alternative dimensions, universes and states of consciousness. She has published more than 20 bestselling books and been translated into several languages. 

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A Piece of Time

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I THINK YOU only truly appreciate your mother once you become a parent yourself. I’m not just talking about the long and arduous labour, or the damage done to her body in order that you might be in the world — I am talking about the worry and anxiety that never ends. I adore my mum, if only for managing to keep me alive this long. Dad, too, but that’s another story.

My mother’s original name is Beryl-Ann, but she was christened Carol. Apparently, there is no saint by the name of Beryl-Ann, so the old priest performing the service refused to christen Mum until her parents rethought their choice. Mum ended up with Toni because her grandfather had expected her to be a boy.

My mother and myself began to explore esoteric thought at around the same time. I was getting married, Mum was getting divorced.

Just in case any readers might be mistaken in thinking that esoteric doctrine has something to do with the devil, the word esoteric simply means ‘withheld, not clear’. It is ancient wisdom, knowledge of the etheric world and its inhabitants; it teaches a belief in the soul-mind and the inner realms of the cosmos.

Mum and I have aided each other to unravel some of life’s mysteries during our many deep discussions about the secret mysteries of this planet, the nature of spirituality and mankind. Much of what we have theorised is hidden beneath the plot lines of my tales, but it is up to the reader to define their own boundary between fact and fiction.

Thanks to Mum I have come into contact with many psychics, channellers, healers, and