I was privileged to read one of Viv’s novels Strangers and Pilgrims. The emotional and psychological impact it has had on me is so profound that I had to wait for some time for my thoughts to crystallise before I could express them. I shall not disclose any details about the plot, but to make my point I will explain that the characters in the book are all people who have been trying hard to deal with the issues of grief and loss in their lives. They come to know there is way of healing broken hearts, a place of retreat, the Wellspring, where.....

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As we journey through life, we collect memories. Some of these memories cling to our thoughts with a ferocious tenacity – never allowing us a moment of clear, untainted happiness; and making us scream, “My heart is broken, and I am dying inside!”

Each of us has such secret heartaches that we can’t bring ourselves to share with anyone, and that stop us from being as happy as we’d want to be. When I read Vivienne Tuffnell’s “Strangers and Pilgrims,” I felt that I too was there – a pilgrim in the House of Wellspring! I read the book in

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I get very dispirited by most book shops: So much paper and so little worth reading! Strangers and Pilgrims is very different. It doesn't fit into the old over used genres - it starts its own. The characters are well drawn, rounded and believable. You are drawn gently into the plot, hooked and then reeled in.

This is a damn good novel that is subtly something more. There is a spiritual depth that permeates the story without intruding. In this respect there are parallels with the work of Paulo Coelho.

Enough said. Read it for yourself and enjoy!

Aardvark.

When I first read this I was faced with a dilemma; It is such a page turner that I couldn't read fast enough and yet at the same time I did not want it to finish.

You become part of the story and part of the journey and you feel so connected to the characters as their journey unfold. Simply fantastic.  J