Inia Jardine
The ocean, clouds, my beloved pets, my daughter, plants, animals, flowers and food are my favourite photographic subjects. Racial harmony, interracial love, compassion towards animals and those who need our help, Jamaica, South Africa & environmentally friendly, sustainable living are my favourite subjects to write about.
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This book- the first in a trilogy, is about Lilia, a South African woman with interest in the injustices of the past (and present), who leaves her unhappy country for the United Kingdom. While on a working holiday in Jamaica she meets Jonah, a Jamaican Professor of Geology. Their souls connect, they fall in love and in a little in lust, and make their way through many events together.
This book is suitable for more mature readers or the open minded - as it has some erotic content. It is about change, about growing and evolving. It is also about love, friendship, give and take, trying to survive the curve balls life can throw at you by standing up for each other. It touches on vegetarianism, slavery and compassion, and the reader is sucked into a gorgeous but different world with real, well developed characters and places. No stereotypes.
At the end of the book you can't wait to continue the roller coaster ride of the character's lives and you will not have long to wait as the sequel is available right here, Visions of Rain. The third book in the trilogy, Visions of the Past, is due before end of May 2017.
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Visions of Rain starts where the first book in the trilogy, Visions of Blue ended, in Jamaica at the glorious Gorgoleta Boutique Hotel. The new investor from South Africa, Udo Daboui arrives with his daughter Aleesha and her friend Rain, both in their twenties. They meet Lilia and Jonah, main protagonists of the previous book and owners of the hotel as well as Mr Coelho, Cuban businessman and owner of the land, his companion Jalade and her thirty-something son Omar who are from Trinidad & Tobago.
The story takes us through the initiation and execution of a brilliant community project in St Thomas, one of the poorest areas in Jamaica which desperately need investment and jobs, a trip to South Africa with a visit to the Apartheid Museum, and many other adventures.
In this multi cultural novel wherein the tenets and principles of racial harmony, compassionate living, charity and kindness are woven through, you will discover a very sexy tale of people finding and enjoying each other.
We are introduced to practitioners of Wicca and get to know the hardships of lovable LGBT characters, whilst delving into the past where Agwe and Sirene, rulers of the ocean, get involved. There will even be an attempted murder and a death to deal with!
The characters evolve in their own ways, some gravitate towards the good and others towards the bad side of life.
You will read the story and take a journey with the characters - furthermore, you will be left with a wish to visit Jamaica to experience her beauty as well as the lovely people who call it home. You will want to see South Africa in order to experience her hopeful present and sad past. You will consider living more compassionately towards others of different persuasions as well as hopefully consider living with kindness towards innocent animals. You will be richer for the experience.
Enjoy, and remember that the third book in the trilogy will be available soon.
This book is a simple, unpretentious vegetarian cookbook & guide to growing your own vegetables & herbs. We have compiled it so as to be your guide for making the transition to vegetarianism/veganism.
Assembled over the years, first by using 'meat dishes' without the meat in order to still enjoy our favourite tastes, gradually we began to experiment and combine different and new ingredients and flavours.
Insipred by the Ital principle we aim to eat vegan whenever possible, but advise you to ensure that if you do not choose the vegan way, that all dairy, eggs and honey you consume should be from free range, well cared for animals who are not subjected to any form of cruelty. This basically means that you should steer clear of mass produced, commercially farmed products.
Assisted by Lilia Hibbert, Jalade Granville and Izzy Jardine, three other passionate vegetarians from Gorgoleta, Place of the butterflies as featured in the Visions of Blue Trilogy, I bring you this starter guide to a diet based on cruelty free ethics and delicious food. For more information about Gorgoleta and it's people, as well as inspiration for your journey, read my novels Visions of Blue and Visions of Rain.
Visions of Time Book 3 in the Visions Trilogy
Set in Jamaica 2018, the story of Lilia Hibbert, a South African woman married to Jonah, a Jamaican man, continues. Lilia suddenly experiences visions of the past as well as the future.
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Aided by the resident spirits of Gorgoleta the ancestral property, Elizabeth and Enoch, Lilia is taken back in time to experience Carribean slavery first hand.
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In the midst of her supernatural journey she is also given glimpses of an apocalyptic future world and a faint glimmer of hope.