Shirley J. Adult Fiction Gypsy Fortune Tellers, Seaside Entertainers and Entertainment
The Moon, the Stars and Madame Burova by Ruth Hogan 304 pages
Excellent story of a Gypsy Fortune Teller, Madame Imelda Burova, who reads Tarot cards, the Chrystal ball, palms and is also a clairvoyant who works out of a booth first used by her mother who taught her divination, on the Brighton, England seafront. Just as she is preparing to retire, a young woman appears with a story of being abandoned as a baby back in the 1970s on the Brighton pier. The young woman, Billie was adopted and never knew until her parents deaths that she was not their biological daughter. Having lost her job, gotten divorced now finding out she was adopted and the way she had been left by her birth mother, having been handed a mystery, she begins searching for who her mother is and why she would have left her baby there of all places. She turns up on Madame Burova's doorstep to find the answers she seeks. Little does she know, Madame Burova knows a lot more about her than she is letting on. An excellent story that will keep you guessing all the way to the end. I recommend it to mature teens on up.
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