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A Mink coat in St Neots: My Mother's flower shop and the mystery of a wealthy Russian Princess.

My new book, published 7 November 2024, is about a mysterious woman who came into my mother’s flower shop, usually wearing a mink coat. But who was she?  This is a detective story without a murder, but with plenty of mystery and strange twists and turns.  And all true!

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This is a selection of essays and articles which first appeared in The Conservative Woman, over the last three years.  Lest we forget what we went through!

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This is a collection of articles originally published on The Conservative Woman website and now available in book form.  It is a personal account of the nonsense most of us put up with during the Covid years which are not yet over.

More Information Why Women Believe in God

This book takes the form of a conversation about the pressing religious and spiritual issues of today, between two modern women of similar age but very different backgrounds and experience. Journalist Liz Hodgkinson questions Sister Jayanti, who has devoted her life to spirituality, on religion, atheism, secularisation, science, meditation, who or what is God, and how and why women now have to lead the way to a better future.  This book is hard-hitting and controversial but compassionate at the same time and although it covers many thorny topics, is an easy, entertaining and even humorous read.

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Buy from Amazon Codependency: How to Break Free and Live Your Own Life

Codependents are people who are alienated from the self and deny their genuine emotions. They depend on others for their own sense of self-worth and self-esteem. This text shows how codependency starts, how it manifests itself, and how the problems it causes in a person’s life can be overcome

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Buy from Amazon Happy to Be Single: The Pleasures of Independence

More relationships are breaking up, more marriages are ending, more people are getting married later, so, as a result, there are more single people around. At the same time, we are being told that the best way to be both healthy and happy is to form a close, loving, intimate relationship with another person, preferably of the opposite sex. But is this really true?

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Buy from Amazon Obsessive Love: How to Free Your Emotions and Live Again

Anyone who has been in the grip of a hopeless, one-sided passion for another person will know just how overwhelming and painful the experience can be. And how impossible it is to live a ‘normal’ life when you cannot get that person out of your mind. In Obsessive Love Liz Hodgkinson, a former victim of obsessive love herself, explores this very common syndrome and looks at the hurt it can cause.

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Buy from Amazon Peace and Purity: The Story of a Spiritual Revolution

The Brahma Kumaris has become a highly-respected worldwide movement, headed by women. This unique organization works with profound spirituality at its core and is renowned for campaigns and global projects such as the Million Minutes of Peace Appeal. This book tells the story of the movement.

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Buy from Amazon Reincarnation: the Evidence

All over Europe, people are becoming fascinated by the idea of reincarnation - an age-old tradition of Eastern religions but largely shunned by Christianity and Judaism. People are also experiencing past-life regression therapy and discovering cures for present-day ailments and phobias through the treatment of traumas suffered in past lives. Much of the appeal of reincarnation lies in the fact that it offers answers for such questions as: Why are some children born handicapped ?

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Buy from Amazon Sex is not compulsory: giving up sex for better health and greater happiness

Liz Hodgkinson maintains that sex is not, as many have assumed, absolutely central to our lives. Her own long-lasting and happy marriage has been sexless from choice for many years. In addition, she claims that celibacy has many benefits and can be a positive, life-enhancing decision for people. Her views have stimulated a hornets’ nest of argument that will rage for many years to come.

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Buy from Amazon Unholy matrimony : the case for abolishing marriage

There is nothing holy about matrimony It was never ‘instituted of God’, whatever the marriage service may declare, but by a succession of man-made laws in the sacred cause of property and inheritance rights. Through the codification of the marriage laws, women lost all their rights to a separate identity: to own property, to have a private income and individual status in law. In spite of attempts in the twentieth century to redress the balance, marriage still makes women second-class citizens.

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