All This Beauty, The Book

JILL DENBUTTER AUTHOR

All This Beauty

ALL THIS BEAUTY... (Lighthouse Publishing, 2012) Uses this enchanting place as the setting for a spiritual journey, a journey blending humour with tragedy, hate with love and misunderstanding with reconciliation. It is a story spanning the divide between adult and child literature, a fairytale, dreamy and quintessentially English; inviting you to consider the small things of life and how they can encourage us to examine the how and why of what we are. ALL THIS BEAUTY - a quick overview... Jane and her sister Kate, two girls growing up in the rural backwater that was the Isle of Wight during the nineteen-seventies, lonely and confused amongst the eccentricities of their family and their parents uncomfortable relationship, find themselves suddenly taken back to a time when these various people were young and living through events that had only ever been presented to them a gilt-edged legends. Complex individuals are unmasked: cruel and sordid, brilliant and self-seeking, victims and (in their turn) perpetrators of abuse shackled together in what appears to be an endless cycle of wasted opportunities... This glimpse of a magical, irretrievable world forces them to question who they are and most importantly who they are before God; to develop a sense of compassion and to learn how to forgive... ALL THIS BEAUTY... is about viewing life from a point where we are at our most perceptive and vulnerable. It is about the heightened sensitivity of adolescence doing battle with our inherent egoism.

'All this beauty is of God' has been the official Isle of Wight motto since the early part of the twentieth century and appears on its coat of arms. Creation honours its Creator. Isn't that what we're all here for?