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    Pearl of the Seas: Kate-Pearl Stories, #2
    The Black Inked Pearl, a journey of the soul: Kate-Pearl Stories, #1
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    Kate-Pearl Stories Series

    By Ruth Finnegan

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    About this series

    Kate continues her poetic journey of self-discovery in the next volume  of the magical Kate-Pearl series. As in the earlier  tales, she runs away,  then hearing a dramatic African story violently - tsunami-like -  changes her mind and has to struggle  through many traumas  and sacrifices to try to find him and at any cost re-win  love.

     

    But first, the search for the kindling spark of knowledge had sent Kate soaring to a grand university governed  by creatures who protect wisdom more ancient than that  even of writing. There, Kate had learned the science, folklore, and understanding of the fourth  and most transformative of the earth's elements: Fire, manifested in the flickering multiple flames of the earth's journey through the fiery stars.

     

    Her search for "him" is full of disaster. She sees him  on the other side of the forest fire but how can she reach him? She tries seven - always terrifying - ways to get  to him: across,  round,  over, through the sea, under, around again: all end in failure. At last she ventures down - centuries, millennia, more - through  the rock layers of the  earth's historic  eras  to the deepest fire within that energises the world. There, by the smiths at Vulcan's shadowy forge, she finds him - but he turns his back and walks away,

     

    What can she do? only throw herself into the blazing horrifying flaming burning scaring-scarring flames, her nightmare, to try to finally reach  him.

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRuth Finnegan
    Release dateOct 12, 2020
    Pearl of the Seas: Kate-Pearl Stories, #2
    The Black Inked Pearl, a journey of the soul: Kate-Pearl Stories, #1

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      The Black Inked Pearl, a journey of the soul: Kate-Pearl Stories, #1
      The Black Inked Pearl, a journey of the soul: Kate-Pearl Stories, #1

      The Black Inked Pearl, a journey of the soul: Kate-Pearl Stories, #1

      Ruth Finnegan
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      An epic romance about the naive Irish girl Kate and her mysterious lover, whom she rejects in panic and then spends her life seeking. After the opening rejection, Kate recalls her Irish upbringing, her convent education, and her coolly-controlled professional success, before her tsunami-like realisation beside an African river of the emotions she had concealed from herself and that she passionately and consumingly loved the man she had rejected. Searching for him she visits the kingdom of beasts, a London restaurant, an old people's home, back to the misty Donegal Sea, the heavenly archives, Eden, and hell, where at agonising cost she saves her dying love. They walk together toward heaven, but at the gates he walks past leaving her behind in the dust. The gates close behind him. He in turn searches for her and at last finds her in the dust, but to his fury (and renewed hurt) he is not ecstatically recognised and thanked. And the gates are still shut. On a secret back way to heaven guided by a little beetle, Kate repeatedly saves her still scornful love, but at the very last, despite Kate's fatal inability with numbers and through an ultimate sacrifice, he saves her from the precipice and they reach heaven. Kate finally realises that although her quest for her love was not in vain, in the end she had to find herself – the unexpected pearl. The novel, born in dreams, is interlaced with the ambiguity between this world and another, and increasingly becomes more poetic, riddling and dreamlike as the story unfolds. The epilogue alludes to the key themes of the novel – the eternity of love and the ambiguity between dream and reality.    

      An epic romance about the naive Irish girl Kate and her mysterious lover, whom she rejects in panic and then spends her life seeking. After the opening rejection, Kate recalls her Irish upbringing, her convent education, and her coolly-controlled professional success, before her tsunami-like realisation beside an African river of the emotions she had concealed from herself and that she passionately and consumingly loved the man she had rejected. Searching for him she visits the kingdom of beasts, a London restaurant, an old people's home, back to the misty Donegal Sea, the heavenly archives, Eden, and hell, where at agonising cost she saves her dying love. They walk together toward heaven, but at the gates he walks past leaving her behind in the dust. The gates close behind him. He in turn searches for her and at last finds her in the dust, but to his fury (and renewed hurt) he is not ecstatically recognised and thanked. And the gates are still shut. On a secret back way to heaven guided by a little beetle, Kate repeatedly saves her still scornful love, but at the very last, despite Kate's fatal inability with numbers and through an ultimate sacrifice, he saves her from the precipice and they reach heaven. Kate finally realises that although her quest for her love was not in vain, in the end she had to find herself – the unexpected pearl. The novel, born in dreams, is interlaced with the ambiguity between this world and another, and increasingly becomes more poetic, riddling and dreamlike as the story unfolds. The epilogue alludes to the key themes of the novel – the eternity of love and the ambiguity between dream and reality.    

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      Pearl of the Seas: Kate-Pearl Stories, #2
      Pearl of the Seas: Kate-Pearl Stories, #2

      Pearl of the Seas: Kate-Pearl Stories, #2

      Ruth Finnegan
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      Ruth Finnegan's earlier The Black Inked Pearl led us on a romantic journey intertwined with a spiritual parable. In Pearl of Seas, the same vivid themes of sacrifice and self-discovery are revisited in a story crafted especially for younger readers, embracing the same wit, wisdom, and whimsy that eager readers have described as "a fantastic combination of prose and poetry."Stories, like song, thrive through repetition - and in Pearl of the Seas we get to visit our heroine Kate once again, this time years before the events of The Black Inked Pearl.. On the cusp of adolescence, Kate and her best friend Chris unleash the power of their childish imagination as they craft a sailing ship propelled by curiosity, innocence, and a love for adventure - aboard which they'll embark on an epic journey that will see them explore uncharted oceans, brave tumultuous weather, and come face-to-face with mysterious figures bearing timeless wisdom.   Here is another engaging and emotional tale that mirrors the powerful themes of The Black Inked Pearl, with  an adventurous use of language and rhyme specifically chosen to engage and inspire children of all ages. Both deft and dreamlike, readers have compared Finnegan's story to the works of C. S. Lewis, Maurice Sendak, and, not least, to Homer's iconic Odyssey.   "Everyone should read this book." Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.  

      Ruth Finnegan's earlier The Black Inked Pearl led us on a romantic journey intertwined with a spiritual parable. In Pearl of Seas, the same vivid themes of sacrifice and self-discovery are revisited in a story crafted especially for younger readers, embracing the same wit, wisdom, and whimsy that eager readers have described as "a fantastic combination of prose and poetry."Stories, like song, thrive through repetition - and in Pearl of the Seas we get to visit our heroine Kate once again, this time years before the events of The Black Inked Pearl.. On the cusp of adolescence, Kate and her best friend Chris unleash the power of their childish imagination as they craft a sailing ship propelled by curiosity, innocence, and a love for adventure - aboard which they'll embark on an epic journey that will see them explore uncharted oceans, brave tumultuous weather, and come face-to-face with mysterious figures bearing timeless wisdom.   Here is another engaging and emotional tale that mirrors the powerful themes of The Black Inked Pearl, with  an adventurous use of language and rhyme specifically chosen to engage and inspire children of all ages. Both deft and dreamlike, readers have compared Finnegan's story to the works of C. S. Lewis, Maurice Sendak, and, not least, to Homer's iconic Odyssey.   "Everyone should read this book." Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury.  

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