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rank 7169 (-123)
word count 10837
date submitted 27.05.2009
date updated 27.05.2009
genres: Literary Fiction, Chick Lit, Religi...
classification: universal
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Heaven Is In Your Heart

Nick van der Leek

 

About death. A mother returns to earth as a ghost and longs to speak to her son who is still alive.

 

A story of letting go. A dead woman attempts to break loose from the demands of heaven (and purgatory) for time with her son. She gets better at breaking the bonds of heaven, but realises as her understanding grows, how heartbreaking the reality of life going on must be for the dead and living alike.

 
 

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Nick VDL wrote 317 days ago

Chapter 8

I really like your geological, astronomical and geographical descriptions of the earth and heaven and how mother is truly one with the universe. Her son is crying and she can't physically comfort him. Frustration.

Julie



Thanks Julie

Almost there...are you going to finish it?

ergi1120 wrote 354 days ago

Chapter 8

I really like your geological, astronomical and geographical descriptions of the earth and heaven and how mother is truly one with the universe. Her son is crying and she can't physically comfort him. Frustration.

Julie

ergi1120 wrote 354 days ago

Chapter 7

Do all sons really want to marry their mother in some way? Her son is a candle lighting the way for the next generation.

Julie

ergi1120 wrote 354 days ago

Chapter 6

Freedom in South Africa. If Nelson Mandella could endure 35 years in prison her son can suffer through life's disappointments. The mother has reached out to her son and told him of holding humanity's hand and he is free to do whatever he chooses.

Julie

ergi1120 wrote 354 days ago

Chapter 5

The depression before the mother's suicide must have been the drowning and she wants her son to swim and feel everything life has to offer that is beautiful and good.

Julie

ergi1120 wrote 354 days ago

Chapter 4

The mother has remorse for how her life was lived. Her perception of the world is lonely and she wants to teach her son lessons she learned the hard way and how to embrace our most precious gift life on earth well lived and sistine valuls of blue in heaven. Nick Van Der Leek Manley Hopkins.

Julie

ergi1120 wrote 355 days ago

Chapter 3

God's fingers reach out and touch you (sunlight) he pushes the hair out of his eyes. Mother is disappointed in her son. The restless soul finds him in France and he is self-centered and selfish. Are you Catholic Nick? This has a very Catholic religious ring to it. Apparently, Mother took her own life and she is in purgatory or is damned float in earth, space and time. Excellent writing!

Julie

ergi1120 wrote 355 days ago

Chapter 2

Nick, this is the 3rd novella I am reading and you really do have a literary range you have perfected this mother's voice with such love and tenderness and I know this is the language of love a mother would use for her child. I have read in your profile that you are a Fan of Alice Sebold "The Lovely Bones." I have not read that novel but it was a great success if this is what has influenced this I just might read it. The descriptions are beautiful and the details are precise and original.

Julie

ergi1120 wrote 355 days ago

Chapter 1

I can feel the mother's love for her son as you so poetically paint with words her feelings and interior thoughts of looking down on her son and not being with him. From what I read the mother was killed by gun shot. A violent death and her soul must be restless she is not at peace she still wants earthly life with her son but she can only look down and think of advice.

Julie

LittleDevil wrote 436 days ago

This is beautiful, creative writing. Literary in every sense of the word. A mother looking over her son, trying to steer him in the right direction. Upset that she is not around to guide him in the true sense of the word. I've reached chapter four without blinking. I'll put this on my shelf and read some more later.
You have a way of hooking your reader and then holding them in your embrace. If there were any typos I was too involved to notice them. So they couldn't have been that important.
Wonderful stuff.
Sue (A Boy Called George)

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