"PATRON SAINT OF MISFITS" AUTHOR

Books published:

The Patron Saint of Misfits

Whether you're wounded from the most shocking and heartbreaking of abuses, depressed and anxious with each item of 'breaking news', isolated through shyness or rejection, frightened, ashamed, grieving: there are answers. You are loved. And you are safe. Light is not just shining through the dark rain, it is in it too.

Einstein's Theory of the Blues

Art student Teresa Chace is curating an Einstein exhibition where she wonders about the fate of Einstein's 'missing' daughter, Lieserl. Not knowing her birth mother, and feeling guilt about her own recent abortion, her concern has a personal urgency . Her own story is interwoven with flashbacks to a traumatic childhood and imagined monologues from her mother. As well as being driven to discover who her mother is, and find some atonement for her own past decisions, Teresa is drawn to two remarkable men: Davy who has been like a brother to her and Ethan, the charismatic and troubled local pastor. Einstein's Theory is a novel about hurt, loneliness, thwarted love and salvation.

The 23rd Dream

Describes the last year in the life of Adam Stauffer, and his family members' attempts to come to terms with their loss. An award-winning debut novel. 

Jesse's Shoes

When the barely awake, caffeine-starved Robert Breit M.D. is called into the hospital’s operating theatre to deal with a gunshot victim and handed a bloodied envelope, nothing prepares him for the life-changing journey (both real and metaphorical) that follows. 

“I realized I was still holding the bloody envelope. Dumbly, I waved it near Jesse’s face where he could see that it had been delivered safely. He closed his eyes slowly like an exhausted runner and nodded almost imperceptibly. Then he opened his fading eyes again and sought mine out among the throng around him. I bent closer to see what he wanted.”

If you like suspense, this book is for you. If you enjoy a good, timely dose of dry humor, you’re certain to engage with these characters. If you, like many hundreds of others, have come to trust Kathy Egbert as an author of original, page-turning, significant writing, then you will not be disappointed with her tour de force Jesse’s Shoes.

Ever wanted to pay someone back for a huge kindness they’d shown you, only to find it was too late? This is a story of communion and sacrifice that goes beyond the material; as heart-warming and life-affirming as it is tragic and bitterly real.

Once again, 
this author reminds us 
to never underestimate 
the power of courage, loyalty…
and love.

Hiking Past the Devil

Kathy Egbert came to the Catholic Church later in life and was often challenged on her choice of denomination. She wrote this novel, a fictional pilgrimage, to explain why the ‘first church’ was the one in which she felt most at home. 

Each pilgrim on this journey is escaping not just the fires of unrest and violence that are ravaging the city streets, but their own individual traumas. 

Along the way there is joy, music, prayer, teaching, scripture, bereavement, love, aggression and forgiveness. All against the backdrop of a beautiful but ever-changing sky and within the protective circle of Catholic monks and the warmth of growing friendships.

Those who have read Kathy Egbert’s books before will know that she is a master of 'showing rather than telling' in her writing style, just as she was in her Christian life. As St Francis once said "Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.” This is the essence of the Catholic Church as presented in these pages. 

When St. Peter accepted the keys and founded his Church two thousand years ago, most people could not read. This moving and illuminating journey brings to life the importance and value of the iconography, the stations of the cross, the rosary, the incense, even the stained-glass windows in allowing everyone to access the Bible’s teachings...Culminating in the most experiential and intimate communion of all: the Catholic Eucharist.

If you still look at the Catholic Church “as through a glass, darkly”, this novel is quite literally revelatory.

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