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  • Desiderata’s Lost Cause
    Nick Aaron
    Nerva, the future emperor of Rome, called the Christian faith 'Desiderata’s lost cause'. At the time the ’Universal Church’ counted only a few thousand faithful rather than untold millions, and he didn’t think it would last, as the Second Coming of the Messiah was looking more and more like a no-show. His blind friend Desiderata would demur and argue.Then in AD 76 the first ele...
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  • Back to Africa
    Nick Aaron
    Haunted by the loss of a childhood worldWhile visiting her son Jonathan in prison, Daisy heard a strange story. He’d befriended an old man who was serving a life sentence for a crime he hadn’t committed. Of course every inmate says that, but Johnny-John believed this man’s protestations of innocence and begged his mother to look into it.The facts of the case had taken place in ...
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  • The Nightlife of the Blind
    Nick Aaron
    Revisiting the wild passions of youthThere is something special about meeting an old acquaintance by chance. A reunion with someone you were close to a long time ago always seems a bit miraculous. But for the blind especially this is a very unlikely occurrence, as you might as well pass one another by without even knowing it.So in 1984, at the age of sixty-one, Daisy Hayes was ...
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  • Murder on the High Sea
    Nick Aaron
    A corpse found floating in the oceanIn 1960 Daisy Hayes was asked to replace a physiotherapist on an ocean liner, for just one round trip to New York, at very short notice. Before she knew it she was sailing on the RMS Histria, in the thick of the life on board. With the intrigues and love triangles going on around her, she marveled at the potential for murderous plots on such ...
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  • The Desiderata Riddle
    Nick Aaron
    The last days that Daisy Hayes spent in Rome in 1964 were quite exciting. She and Father Contini went back to the crypt and made some disturbing discoveries. Not about Desiderata herself, but about the archaeologist who had investigated the place in the thirties. The quest now led them to the German town of Trier, where they teamed up again in the fall of that same year to cont...
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  • The Desiderata Gold
    Nick Aaron
    In 1992 Daisy Hayes had inherited Bottomleigh House and was struggling to keep it afloat financially. Then she got a letter from an archaeologist asking her to help make sense of a mysterious message that had just been dug up in Rome. Time to hook up again with Morag, her deaf friend from the ’project’ in 1964, and to go back to the Eternal City.In AD 64, after Feli’s death, De...
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  • Honeymoon in Rio
    Nick Aaron
    In 1952 there were children everywhere. Or so it seemed to Daisy Hayes, blind since birth, who at the age of 29 had just tied the knot for the second time-to an intercontinental pilot. But on their first flight as a married couple an engine broke down-sabotage?-and they were grounded.Now, there are worse places to stop over for repairs than Rio de Janeiro, especially if you’re ...
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  • The Desiderata Stone
    Nick Aaron
    Daisy Hayes was a sculptress, and blind since birth. In 1964 a French priest came to visit her at the collective studio in north London where she worked. He was fascinated by the impaired artist and told her, 'There’s this program at the Vatican Museums, where people like you get an opportunity to study archaeological artifacts by touch. Are you interested?' - 'Of course, mon P...
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  • First Spring in Paris
    Nick Aaron
    In 1946 Daisy and her friend Beatrice decided to move to Paris, because they were fed up with limping London, still crippled and depressed in the aftermath of the war. And indeed, in the spring of that year, Paris was the place to be-isn’t it always? In particular, some very interesting things were going on in Saint-Germain-des-Prés: existentialism, free love, and American jazz...
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  • D for Daisy
    Nick Aaron
    World War II. During the attacks on Berlin in the winter of 1943-44, wave after wave of British bombers swept over northern Europe and dropped their lethal loads on the German capital. A fair percentage of the bombers would fail to return from these operations, and RAF planners calculated the life expectancy of the airmen in weeks rather than months.Therefore it did not seem st...
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