For 44 years James Lynch lay in Tauranga hospital NZ, paralysed, without speech and totally dependent. He was the longest hospital-stay patient in NZ history. He was visited by celebrities and ordinary people alike and formed lasting relationships with many. This is the story of one of those relationships- a poignant portrayal of the close bond developed over seventeen years James was visited by the author. Pauline Grogan tells James' story with sensitivity and love. It is an absorbing tale of how a seriously disabled man was able to come to terms with his paralysed body and experience a...
For 44 years James Lynch lay in Tauranga hospital NZ, paralysed, without speech and totally dependent. He was the longest hospital-stay patient in NZ ...
At the age of seventeen, Pauline Grogan enters the convent and seven years later takes her final vows. At age 29, desecrated and bewildered, she finds herself back in the secular world, having to begin life all over again. Beyond the Veil is the sometimes shocking account of how faith survives even it's own worst abuse, but is much more than than that. It is the story of a nun who becomes a wife and mother and then, as happiness seems secure is cast down into the deepest regions of despair. It is the story of anyone who has feared for their own safety, their sanity, and above all the health...
At the age of seventeen, Pauline Grogan enters the convent and seven years later takes her final vows. At age 29, desecrated and bewildered, she finds...
