A former Lampeter woman has published a book on life after death based on her experience of losing her three-year-old daughter over 30 years ago.

Jenny Jeffrey’s daughter, Elin Mair Thomas, died on 13 December, 1984 – just six weeks after being diagnosed with leukaemia.

And Jenny, a 67-year-old artist now living in Bulgaria, said she was urged by her late daughter’s spirit to write Awakening – The Inevitable Door, in which the little girl describes her own death.

“I always felt that the physical remains that were buried in Llanycrwys Church grounds, near Ffarmers, were not the true essence of my child,” Jenny, who will be promoting the book at The Mulberry Bush, Lampeter, next Thursday and Friday, 11 and 12 October, from 2pm to 5pm, told the Cambrian News.

“In 2013, during meditation while visiting friends in Romania, I was asked by [Elin] to write with her and describe her dying process.

“The book, which is written in conversational style with her, also describes her birth and her conception.

“I hope it will help change the perception that death is the end.

“Our loved ones are in fact still part of our lives and they have a very real need to share their love with us and for us to reciprocate.

“The world we live in is far more complex than most of us think.”

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