Like the film, ‘Julie/Julia’ this book is based on
the lives of two women who lived at different times and places but who had
uniquely intertwined lives. Elizabeth Spring, astrologer and aspiring writer,
finds Annie Besant because of unusual similarities in their astrology charts. Annie
was a passionate social reformer who lost custody of her children because of
distributing information on birth control in 1875. After trials and depression,
Annie becomes a passionate spiritual seeker, being mentored by the Russian
psychic Madame Blavatsky, head of the Theosophical Society. As Elizabeth
struggles to write a screenplay of Annie’s life she discovers the heartfelt and
obsessive story of Annie’s adopted son, the young mystic J. Krishnamurti, and
the occultist, Charles Leadbeater. Elizabeth questions the role of fate and
reincarnation in her own life by what she uncovers about her mysterious
relationship with Annie who was born exactly 100 years earlier, in Victorian
England in 1847.
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