Lavender and Lies

When Trixie Callender Opened Her Lavender House Therapycentre With Hopes For A Profi Table Sweetly-Scented Calmingenvironment She Could Not Have Foreseen The Impact To Bemade By A Troubled And Troublesome Client. The Effect Onthe Therapists Their Families And Friends Causes Ripples Thatfragment Relationships And Results In Some Suspicious Deaths.An Institution Founded Partly On Unsupported Theories Andpractices In An Atmosphere Of Faith And Hope Refl Ects A Largerpicture Where Half-Truths And Absolute Lies Easethe Social Wheels.Now Retired With An Ma In Education I Was Headteacher Ofa Special School On The Isle Of WightUk. I Began To Writefi Ction And Have Had Several Short Stories Published. Interestedin Debates About Alternative Therapies I Thought There Was Roomfor A Black Comedy With A Therapy Centre As The Focus.