The Rainbow Rings of Time

By Suzie Townley and Corinne Randall

This is a story of a soul who journeys through nine distinct cycles of time, and gradually experiences and discovers the purpose of her life.
Written in the poetic symbols of the imagination, with the heroine being at first a tiny rose-seed, the author hopes to enchant and inspire the reader with a vision of the unfolding stages of the life we all share.
The beautiful illustrations are by Corinne Randall, a well-known artist based in Bristol, UK. They perfectly match the tones and colours of The Rainbow Rings of Time.
Come, children and grown-ups alike!
Take a magical journey through these many coloured rings of time with a rose-seed soul as she travels on so many exciting and unusual adventures.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Aug 31, 2021
• ISBN: 9781398406537

Suzie Townley

The author grew up in a small cottage in Somerset, England. As a child she loved dancing, singing, playing the piano and violin, and writing stories and poems. Later, after pioneering a research project at the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in Switzerland and graduating in Psychology, she emigrated to Canada where she lived and worked in many different provinces. But having an adventurous spirit, she eventually gravitated to the wilderness of the Kootenay Mountains of British Columbia, living amiably with wild horses and the occasional bear. This is where she wrote this book in 1972. Returning to civilisation in England after a few years, she qualified in several therapeutic disciplines, and resumed playing the violin in symphony orchestras.

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About the Author

The author grew up in a small cottage in Somerset, England. As a child she loved dancing, singing, playing the piano and violin, and writing stories and poems. Later, after pioneering a research project at the Pestalozzi Children’s Village in Switzerland and graduating in Psychology, she emigrated to Canada where she lived and worked in many different provinces. But having an adventurous spirit, she eventually gravitated to the wilderness of the Kootenay Mountains of British Columbia, living amiably with wild horses and the occasional bear. This is where she wrote this book in 1972. Returning to civilisation in England after a few years, she qualified in several therapeutic disciplines, and resumed playing the violin in symphony orchestras.

Dedication

I dedicate this book in loving memory of my exceptional parents, and also to my three wonderful children, Leah, Laurie and Caeli.

Copyright Information ©

Suzie Townley (2021)

Copyright © Corinne Randall

The right of Suzie Townley and Corinne Randall to be identified as author and illustrator of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.

Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.

ISBN 9781786930385 (Paperback)

ISBN 9781398406537 (ePub e-book)

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Acknowledgements

My eternal love is given to the many friends I found in the different countries and cycles of my varied life journey.

Also I give my heartfelt appreciation to my son, Caeli, for patiently transcribing my original manuscript.

The Rainbow Rings of Time

Once upon a no time, there was a very, very tiny rose-seed whose name was Tuli. Tuli had big blue eyes like the sky and long golden hair like the sunshine. And she lived in the fairest warm rose flower home that you could ever dream of. By day she feasted on the morning dewdrops and the velvety smell of soft pink petals, and by night she danced happily among the twinkling laughter of the silver stars.

As you can imagine, this land where Tuli lived was a very special land which was very, very, very far away from here. And in this land, there were millions and millions and millions of red velvet roses growing beautifully everywhere. And sometimes it rained very gently, but always a golden light would keep shining and shining forever and everywhere, except, of course, when it closed its eyes to play a game of hide-and-seek with the stars. And so the rose-flowers and their children-seeds never faded or died because it was forever summer-time and it never got to be winter when all things grow cold and old.

And so it was a land that was more than most especially magic, this land of golden light and roses where Tuli rose-seed lived.

Now, Tuli didn’t know this, but a big surprise was just about to happen to her, rather like a birthday present that all of a sudden arrives out of the blue and you can’t guess for the life of you who could possibly have sent it. Well, this particular surprise that happened to Tuli was that she was going to begin a great new adventure that would take her into many new lands which she had never seen before. In fact, there would be new worlds, all sorts of worlds, worlds inside of worlds, because the forever summer land, where Tuli rose seed lived (and who was more than most especially magic) was made only out of love, and the worlds he wanted her to visit on the adventure were all his many love waves rippling, and upping, and downing, and sparkling and flowing from here to eternity (which is a little bit further than you or I or Tuli put together could almost imagine, but it was