The Vision and Beyond – After the Night of Fires by Maggie Shaw

Description

Who is the captive, released after nearly three years in a foreign jail? What happened to her homeland while she was away? And who is the enigmatic John Smith, charged with finding her true identity? The powerful early synaesthetic description of a city in mourning for its lost past, also demonstrates the challenges faced by a high functioning autistic in trying to understand a world everyone else appears to know. This supernatural Christian Mystic quest novel explores the themes of guilt, healing and identity in a fast-paced story set against a tense post-Cold War world.