A RAYLEIGH writer has published a book using her experience of being a medium as inspiration.

Patricia Hutson, 72, of Exmouth Drive, Rayleigh, is delighted her book Purple Michaelmas has been published by Austin Macauley.

She said: "My story is that of an English housewife and a German man who meet by chance, though in my real world of the Psychic the word “chance” does not really exist.

"Vikki and Dieter are thrown together and without wishing to fall in love, their feelings go beyond the physical to an almost spiritual drawing together.

“Knowing that the general public would not be interested in just events, I decided that a love story with my Spiritual experiences as a Medium and the heart break of a love that can never be would hold people's imagination better.

"They all want to be loved, that one emotion that helps us to share with each other something that no one can become part of making two people different from the rest, crosses all barriers placed by nationalities and language.

"It is life as we would all like it to be.”

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