Not actually my work, but a very good article in any event - which is used as the foreword to my book.

Meeting Roger and Jill Prior in the summer of 1991 following the traumatic loss of their youngest daughter, Lisa, was to me no coincidence. To this very day, I think, no, I KNOW that this ‘chance’ meeting was arranged to perfection by their late daughter Lisa, in a desperate bid to help the Priors regain some sanity in a world that had now become so cruel to them.
I had been, in the early days of my mediumship, hungry to help others in their quest to find proof of survival of the spirit, and that is where the story begins - after one of my demonstrations one evening in 1991 came an open circle, but not before a welcome cup of tea was had by all.
Roger and Jill were introduced to me by Derek Telford, a medium whom I held in the highest regard and for whom I had the utmost respect. We chatted, for the most part, about general things - the weather and such like, and I suddenly got this sense that there was more to this introduction than met the eye. I said to both of them, “You know, both of you will be working in this spiritual field one day. I’m not sure how, but you will.” And with that, and I will never forget it to this day, there was a blank look on Jill’s face. It was as if I had just spoken in fluent Japanese! The palpable silence had an instantaneous way of making everyone else in the room aware to the fact that something had ‘been said’, and the atmosphere brought everyone to a halt. Roger looked a little wary, but that could be, looking back, Roger’s way of dealing with Jill’s very down to earth, ‘feet stuck in a vat of concrete’ look, which tends to embarass him somewhat! As I recall, Jill’s reply was a little curt and to the point. “No, not us,” she said, emphatically.
However, over the following few months, and to this day, both Jill and Roger have played an invaluable part in my life and, by their own admission, I have so in theirs, helping them in whatever small way I can to believe in the afterlife and the survival of the spirit.
This book will take you on a journey very different to most you have travelled, as it will emcompass a mother’s loss of both a daughter and a best friend, and her seemingly ‘unusual’ way of coping with this grief - the dreadful pain and despair rising up again and again, and then moving on, with both Roger and Jill working through their own loss and at the same time helping others, using the precious knowledge that they have been so privileged to have found.
Needless to say, this book will take you on an emotional rollercoaster of tears, pain and sorrow, but also laughter; and yet, in the end, you can share Roger and Jill’s happiness and security in the knowledge that their daughter Lisa did not die in vain. Through THEIR hard work, commitment and tireless efforts, Lisa has helped so many other people to understand and come to terms with the death of a loved one, more than anyone could imagine.
Finally, it will make you smile to know that, after all of this, Jill is STILL capable of giving you that withering look that makes you feel like a dandelion in the direct firing line of a squirt of weedkiller!
This, I’m sure you will appreciate, is an unusual quality in itself - to be involved in such a spiritual vibration, and yet to have your feet so firmly on the ground. For this, and many other qualities, Jill, we are grateful - grateful for your strength and compassion, but also for simply being the person you are today.
Most of all, we have got to thank Lisa, for without Lisa none of this would have been possible.