Magpie's Children

About the Book

The Ficle Hand of Fate; Dwelling on its mysteries can fill our hearts with fear. When it bestows blessings upon us in an unexpected manner. There is always the feeling that they can slip through our fingers. Fate has blessed Karen beyond her deepest dreams and she struggles to feel secure within her new found fortunes. Life direction is no longer forced upon her by the dictates of daily necessity and now she has to choose which of life’s pathways to follow for the sake of her unusually gifted children. Her well founded choices bring her twin children’s extra sensory gifts to ensure that those that seek to misuse them and inexorably lead her from her life of luxury into a web of intrigue and danger that threatens her and her precious twins. She is thrust into a state of affairs that forces her find new strengths and she draws upon the resilience moulded in her abusive and poverty stricken past. Karen discovers that her twins have inherited their gifts from her and alongside them, she cultivates their abilities so that they have the power to confront those who walk in the corridors of the higgest authority. What lies at the end of this pathway? Will Karen’s family and her fortunes survive?

About the Author

R.K.McVeigh was brought up in a religious household as the child of a prominent clergyman who had the strange concept that God would arrange for the nurture of his child as he was too busy spreading the message of God’s love. As this clergyman’s wife was also too preoccupied for parenting, R.K.M. struggled to find a pathway in life and chose a career in Design instead of Literature as it was feared that this could lead to starvation or worse still, teaching. Unfortunately the design world had disintegrated while R.K.M was at Hornsey College, so as R.K.M. had worked in a pottery factory, a wholesale food warehouse and a refuse collection centre whilst a student, there was no fear in trying something else. However, jobs with the Inland Revenue, the DHSS centre for vagrants and a few poorly paid design jobs eventually led to the inevitability of teaching. ‘Not to worry’ thought R.K.M.,’ this will give me the opportunity to write, something that I should have done years ago’. However, the mental exhaustion of teaching meant that until now R.K.M. has only just completed this, the first of a dozen novels that are in various stages of completion. The ‘upside’ of this varied pathway of life has been the wealth of characters that R.K.M has encountered, including two women who were ‘morphed’ into ‘Karen’ of ‘The 7th Magpie’ which is soon to be followed by its sequel ‘Magpie’s Children’.