The Triple Goddess (Arbella; Ophelia; Gloria)

✍ Scribed by Graham, Ashly

• Book ID: 107117426
• Publisher: Ashly Graham
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 784 KB
• Series: The Triple Goddess 1-03
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

“In Love”...”Love”—which is which, and what is the difference?

New and fifteen years in the making, THE TRIPLE GODDESS is a novel about “In Love”. About an obsession with the idea of one girl, one woman. It is three stories—historical fiction, Arcadian fantasy, science fiction, combined with traditional fairy tale--a novel in three parts: history rediscovered in the present: a battle against the worst kind of evil in an English village...a terrifying vision of the future as the end of the world approaches...starring three women who are the same woman, the Triple Goddess of classical mythology made flesh; three mysterious drop-dead gorgeous women whose creation was inspired by a first, single, sun-blinding real-life encounter with a girl many years ago when she was just sixteen, and then was lost to reality, like Orpheus’s Eurydice, or Dante’s Beatrice...but not to the imagination that keeps her present upon the page to whoever wishes to possess her.

The sort of girl whom one thinks about, dreams about, reads about-- perhaps like Don Quixote did his Dulcinea-- every day, every night, until the day one dies: a mind-stalking reality in thought.

What if the real girl, now woman and renowned, feels the same way? One may never know until one is no longer fated but united in the stars. Until then, there is hope; and then there is eternity.

THE TRIPLE GODDESS is laugh-out-loud funny on every page, a true entertainment. It is a battleship of Swiftian social satire, floating on an ocean of irony, amidst a flotsam of Alice in Wonderland nonsense, and comical and wry and black humour. But always glimmering on the horizon is tenderness, romance, and thinking so wishful that every imaginative word makes fact pale before truth.

ARBELLA; OPHELIA; GLORIA:

Arbella, a privileged but unhappy 1980s London city girl, a Zuleika Dobson with whom every person who sees her is willingly drowned in love, finds herself by walking into history at the Tower of London and becoming re-involved with Sir Walter Ralegh and other famous people from her aristocratic past.

Ophelia is the distracted earth-stopping and -mothering curate of a Sussex village—the lodestar fixation of a once-young Archbishop of Canterbury--which becomes occupied by a very unorthodox she-devil, the Big Cahuna herself, and her obnoxious but ridiculous side-kick priest.

Gloria is the visionary nursing sister, a Sheherazade rather than a Florence Nightingale, on the experimental ward of London’s Exeat Institute, the old Greenwich Hospital, where Director Hugo Bonvilian 4285D directs the extraction of essences from the vivisected bodies of his ‘Impatient’ members of the Slave class, as part of the Project to avert the end of the world.

THE TRIPLE GODDESS is a modern day Arabian Nights’ Entertainments of magical diversions that never quite end, and stories within the story. It is a book to get lost in, or to read a page or a chapter at a time, and to reread. It is a book that was written to change the lives of every reader in the way that it changed, and continues to change, that of the writer.В

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