Death, as the saying goes, is the great leveller, and though many fear it, while others view it as a blessed release, its inescapability affects us all in some way. The author of this unusual book makes use both of her spiritual reading and of the knowledge she gained from 20-plus years' experience of taking her Deep Memory Process clients back to deaths in their previous lives, thus giving a broad spectrum of possible post-death scenarios. These she illustrates with a combination of famous and fictional characters, drawn both from accounts that came from the ‘other side' through her figurative pen and from factual research. Part of the book's aim is to dispel all fears of death itself and to demonstrate that the notion of eternal damnation is mistaken. At the same time, it shows the reader that whether a lifetime lasts 10 years (as did Annie Darwin's) or 97 (like Bertrand Russell's), it has a clear purpose and value. The stories' precise truth is, however, immaterial, as you will find them enjoyable, educational, and reassuring.

ANN MERIVALE started writing in 1993, after being told by the American clairvoyant Aron Abrahamsen (who had worked with the well-known prophet Edgar Cayce) that she had come “partly as a writer – to disseminate information on the spiritual life”. Her children were then aged eighteen, sixteen and thirteen and, since the youngest is adopted and half African, she was at the time deeply engaged in anti-racist activities and other issues of Justice and Peace. Previously a Romance linguist and strong Catholic, she became increasingly interested in healing and in 1998 obtained a Diploma from the London College of Past Life Regression Studies. This was followed in 2001 by a Diploma in Deep Memory Process therapy from the late Jungian psychotherapist, Dr. Roger Woolger. She and her husband, Professor David Pearson, now live in Worcestershire, having moved there from Ludlow, Shropshire (where they spent fourteen and a half very good years) on account of falling in love with a new retirement village in Malvern. The couple are blessed with three grandchildren.
Her main therapy practice, at the Ripon Natural Health Centre, North Yorkshire, was suspended by COVID 19 and now, at 83, she feels ready for retirement. Her first book, KARMIC RELEASE, was published in 2006, WOMAN THROUGH THE AGES (a sort of sequel to it) is her eighth and (nine being the divine number!) she feels happy to have completed her final book. Always a keen traveller, she used to finds that, whenever she felt an urge to visit a certain place, a reason for it invariably appears that was in some way connected to her writing.