ISBN #978-1785075698

“Candlepower” by Janet Doolaege is published

Highly original new novel that weaves a magic spell

About the Book:

There is something very odd about Stella’s neighbour. Rose leads a peculiar, Amish-like existence, refusing to have electricity in her Paris apartment. She teaches piano during the day, and in the evenings she makes wonderful quilts by candlelight. Birds love Rose. They come to her window, they follow her in the street – but other neighbours are suspicious, and she has enemies. Stella is drawn to her. The more she gets to know her, the more mysterious she becomes. Rose seems to be at the centre of some very disturbing events.

About the Author:

Janet Doolaege lives in France. She has been writing stories and poems since she was a child, and also writes songs in both English and in French.

Her novels contain a hint of the paranormal, which has always fascinated her and about which she prefers to keep an open mind.

You can read more about Janet and her books on her Authorcentral page:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B005WTAU86

You can also see and hear her reading aloud from her various books.

Excerpt from “Candlepower”:

“Hospital corridors have always frightened me. I came to a stop, undecided, wanting to turn round and hurry back, out of the building and into the sunlight, past the flowerbeds of massed petunias and through the gates to the roaring boulevard. I knew I didn’t want to talk about the events of that dreadful night. But perhaps talking would make everything seem true and final.
A trolley of bottles and enamel dishes rattled up behind me, and I stood aside to let it pass. A door opened, and before it closed I caught a glimpse of a high bed festooned with tubes and apparatus. Devices for doing things to people’s helpless bodies. The smell of disinfectant made me want to turn and run blindly, as I had done once before. They had run after me and brought me back. “Oh, Stella,” my mother said wearily, her face unnaturally sallow against the white pillow, “you are a silly girl. Look at Pascal. He’s not frightened, is he?” Pascal looked smug and went on experimenting with the remote control of the TV. He had marched along the corridor, left, right, left, right, unperturbed. But I knew that my mother was going to die. Terrifying men in white masks would do things to her, as they had done to me when I had had my tonsils out, and I had screamed and fought but nobody had come to rescue me.
That smell of chemicals. Barely two years ago I had smelt it again as I lay in the hard hospital bed, not wanting to be there but knowing that there was no alternative, once more under the all-powerful control of the men in white coats and masks. Helplessly, the tears had run out of my eyes and into my ears, on to my neck, soaking the pillow.”

“Candlepower” by Janet Doolaege is available in paperback from Amazon at:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Candlepower-Janet-Doolaege/dp/1785075691

The story is also available to download in e-book format from Amazon at:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/CANDLEPOWER-Janet-Doolaege-ebook/dp/B009UFEADE

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