Thomas Lawrence – författare

The solrom: a soul journey to heal within, by going without 

Two travellers collide in the wild country on the island of Bracka. 

Geeter, not much more than a boy, is running from the shadows cast by the death of his father. 

Wode, a gnoseer: one of a sacred group possessing a deep knowledge of energy and power of the Inner Realms, seeing and knowing what most cannot. He is called to The Tree of Knowledge for a question of destiny; his answer for one reaches into depths of karma for all. But Wode has his own need of regeneration after the death of his wife. 

The shared journey the two voyagers begin has consequences neither can have imagined. What are the incredible powers that Wode''s teachings begin to unleash in Geeter? How can Wode move past his grief and return to his true spirit? 

Smiling the Moon is a beautiful fable that is rich with magical encounters, unexpected detours and meetings between souls.

Fethiye is a small seaport on Turkey''s Aegean shore where each summer starting in May, tourists from across Europe and England flock to exchange gloomy skies and rain for sand and sea and sometimes sex beneath a hot, bright Mediterranean sun. Connie Cullingsworth, whose life this novel is a portrait of, flies to Fethiye to rescue her daughter, who has been robbed and will need money. Accompanying Connie is her second husband, Charles, a computer whiz who lives in his world of cyberspace and remains indifferent to her needs and desires, as she discovers too late. A teacher schooled in Romanticism, Connie had always dreamt of seeing the Mediterranean, birthplace of western art and literature; and in Bea''s Bar, a favorite haunt for English expatriates, she meets Omer, whose charismatic charm she finds she is unable to resist when he offers to teach her to swim. As a girl, Connie had almost drowned in a Scottish loch, and ever since, she has feared water.

She nonetheless agrees to the swimming lessons, perhaps sensing from the very outset they are an invitation to more than just lessons, first in the water of the Blue Lagoon where Omer holds her so close! Then, as she prepares for her return to cold rainy Manchester, he tempts her with a blue voyage aboard a pretty Turkish gulet to fabled Kekova Sound where, in the ancient ruins above the Sunken City, Omer constructs their bed from eucalyptus leaves. Upon it, in this paradisiacal setting, their love is consummated.

But in the end, Connie must learn that Paradise has its darker side...