During this mini episode we turn the Authors Spotlight onto Penelope Holt and her book The Angel Scroll.
One ancient prophecy, two heartbroken lovers, and a worldwide scavenger hunt for three miraculous paintings.
After her husband’s death, New York artist Claire Lucas has baffling dreams and waking visions as she channels an enigmatic and healing painting of a holy man in India at the deathbed of a young woman. When widowed antiquarian Richard Markson announces that Claire’s canvas is one third of three paintings prophesied by the Angel Scroll, a recently discovered Dead Sea parchment, she is pulled into an international scavenger hunt to find the stolen scroll and the paintings it predicts.
As she pursues the paintings with Richard across historic and holy sites in America, Israel, and Europe, Claire encounters a series of remarkable teachers. A Buddhist, a Benedictine monk, and a professor of early goddess worship all provide rich explanations for the artist’s compelling and perplexing psychic experiences. But it is not until the three paintings are finally assembled that Claire deciphers their inspirational message for the modern world.
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The Angel Scroll by Penelope Holt
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
