The Shekinah Trilogy

Elise, a Canadian by birth but living in England, trains to be a rabbi. She finds herself then closely involved in a series of unusual deaths which lead her to understand why this should be. Visiting her dying aunt in Canada, she learns that as a baby she was baptised and confirmed as a Catholic! She visits the priest who had done this and there is brought face to face with what he calls his Waiting Room, where for hours each day he sits and waits in silence. But now with the arrival of Elise, that task can be handed over to her. 
On return she abandons the rabbinate and goes to live as a solitary on the North York Moors and spends five years in her own waiting room. But a new death, similar to others she has known, marks the end of her solitary life, and on the following day meets Pieter, a Dutch vet, and once again for Elise, life changes wonderfully though she now knows things of which she cannot speak about meaning, purpose and the One that cannot be named.

A young Scottish student pays a visit to Nepal and experiences the first in a number of unusual encounters that lead her to become a Buddhist nun in the Scottish Borders, during which years she takes part in a silent and solitary retreat on over three years' duration. She then has another encounter which changes her life and she goes to live in North Yorkshire with a woman called Elise Westernberg and her family.

​

In the course of time she now finds herself involved with three deaths, all of which call her Buddhism into question but learns all about the meaning of a Hebrew word, Shekinah, and what it means for our living and dying, and ultimate Truth.

A wholly unlikely and unexpected visitor, a Catholic priest from Canada, arrives to bring news that he had been sent many years earlier in pursuit of Elise Rosewarne, the former Rabbi turned solitary turned mother of Three. Here he encounters Shekinah, the foundation of the life of silence sitting each morning in the house. He decides to leave the priesthood though not before Gale asks something special from him.

Gale goes to study in Amsterdam and is appalled by the antisemitism she encounters and returns home; her elder sister Grace, is now a fully qualified vet working with her father in the Yorkshire Dales, where the other sister, Julia, now has a farm of her own. But awaiting them all are two surprises; the first a source of great joy; the second a tragedy. But throughout, the reality of Shekinah

Supports them all.