How Icasia Bloom Touched Happiness

<p><strong>Imagine being put to death for the crime of your child's unhappiness.</strong></p><p>This is the tale of Icasia Bloom: how she is caught up in a story not initially her own and how it changes her world. </p><p>In a Globe controlled by a trusted yet elusive leader who has granted immortality to those who live by The Book misfit Icasia Bloom is doomed to die young for the crime of her child's unhappiness.</p><p>Like all 'tatters' she gets food by bartering and when she brings customers to the new local bakery she meets another borderline outcast Selma Beyett whose plight touches her.</p><p>Selma's husband Jerome must die in six months if his quest for perpetual happiness is not successful.</p><p>What starts as a desperate attempt to save Jerome takes the two women on a profoundly enlightening search for happiness. Icasia questions the Globe's judgement on its people and on the nature of happiness itself.</p><p><strong>Heart-warming yet strangely unsettling How Icasia Bloom Touched Happiness questions everything we take for granted and takes a long hard look into our souls.</strong></p>