This is the autobiography of a modern day mystic, an Irish woman with powers of the saints of old When she was a child, people thought Lorna was 'retarded' because she did not seem to be focussing on that was around her Lorna remembers seeing not just the world around her but seeing, equally vividly, angels and spirits For many years she assumed everyone saw the same As Lorna tells the story of her life, growing up in a poor family, later working in Dublin, marrying and experiencing family tragedy, the reader meets, as she did, the creatures from the spirit worlds who also inhabit our own - mostly angels of an astonishing beauty and variety, including the prophet Elijah and an Archangel - but also the spirits of people who have died