THE GIFT: The Story of an Ordinary Woman’s Extraordinary Power

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Mia also told me that I'm working on a 'chick lit' novel, I wear an engagement ring but take it off a lot, and somebody in my family drives a four-wheel drive vehicle - none of which is, strictly speaking, accurate. I married with two kids, and was cooking tea one afternoon when the kids started fighting," she said.

In the follow up to the Sunday Times bestseller, The Gift, we are taken on a journey further into the psychic world of Mia Dolan, one of Britain's most gifted psychics. In that moment, in an anonymous hotel room with Roz, I realized that I was being offered my first real opportunity along that path. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community.I was at something of a crossroads when I picked this up, and it helped me make sense of so many things. Then one very ordinary day, I was trying to cook tea and the children were fighting in the front room, so I went in to see what was going on. Ten years previously, I had gone on a year-long round-the-world trip and been drawn to the spiritual traditions I found in India.

She then attempts to contact the dead and find out who they are and what they want before carrying out an exorcism on the building. I took to heart their message that all the suffering and happiness in my life come not from external things like success or money but from my own mind – my own attitude. Mia said people don't have to believe in her gift to come to the show, or even have dead relatives they want to contact.I just didn't get on with this book at all, but I think that was because I didn't find Mia to be a likeable character at all, so found myself not caring about her story - whether it be truth or fiction didn't even matter in the end. We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work. She points out she's been tested by scientists in "laboratory" conditions and is in talks with a TV channel about having an MRI scan but it's not conclusive proof Eric actually exists. I wondered if this was one of the reasons people went to see psychics: to focus on their lives and feelings, to spend a bit of time with their deepest dreams.

You can tell it took her a lot of time to accept her gifts and went through a lot of hardships throughout her life which have knocked her confidence in both her life and her spirituality.People live very openly and their spirituality is relevant to the ups and downs of their everyday lives. Life is a wheel, bringing those at the bottom to the top – and, inevitably, down to the bottom again. While Mia has undoubtedly had some triumphs - predicting Take That would split up (don't all bands eventually? The on-off engagement ring could be metaphorical (I certainly waver between thinking marriage would be a lovely romantic adventure, and an act of kamikaze madness), and perhaps I have a long-lost uncle with a Jeep. Catching sight of my reflection in the mirrored door of the wardrobe, I fumbled in my bag for my lipstick.