LETY'S GIFT
BY
Coralie Hughes
Jensen
Sophie Hawkins has a unique
gift. Born illegitimately in a poor fishing village
in the 1950s, she is now set to be consecrated the
first woman Anglican bishop in Newfoundland's Eastern
Diocese. Sophie's mother, Lety, died when Sophie
was too young to remember her. As a result, the
little girl was left to be raised by a cruel grandmother,
an abusive minister, and the sadistic overseers
of a prison-like orphanage.
Under the pressures of a
difficult adolescence, her psychic talents emerge
not as a blessing, but a curse that leads to a breakdown.
Sophie's survival depends on learning to control
her abilities and to confront other traumatic events
from her childhood. She turns to psychiatrist Griffon
Fairbourne who helps her make sense of her powers
and inspires her to enter the priesthood.
Along with classmate Noah
Lodge, Sophie is sent to isolated western Newfoundland
as a hospital chaplain, where her gift reemerges
when she senses danger posed by recent activity
on the hospital's fourth floor that decades earlier
housed an insane asylum. Lety's Gift is a mystery,
a love story, and above all a tale of triumph.
