Böcker av Maria Andreas

The magical story of a woman in search of freedom and joy.Maria is an Australian of Greek Cypriot ancestry born and bred in Adelaide. The youngest daughter of an Orthodox family. She had avoided arranged marriages and permanent employment has evaded her.She applies for a job with a remote Aboriginal Community in the Great Western Desert in Western Australia. She believes she will only stay for three months and stays for seven years.She comes to understand that traditional can mean many different things and learns to suspend judgement and marinate herself in a Aboriginal culture that although traditional is also progressive, resourceful, romantic and loving.She falls in love with the Kimberly and a traditional bushman. Maria is a feminist. How does she reconcile her independence - so hard fought for within her Cypriot Orthodox family - to fall into a traditional bush life with the man she loves and his wide and extended family, and their expectations and beliefs, in the remote outback.She explores and begins to understand what 'country' means through her love for a Walmajarri man and his tribe. How language and storytelling united the lovers and how cultural expectations kept them apart.She is challenged, she is accepted, she is loved.Will she make a life in the desert?

Enter a world both magical and real where squirrels talk, skotis battle with aretis, and friendships are made. Gab and Raphaela the squirrels are delighted to invite Johnny, Paulo, Josiane and Tatiana into their natural, but mystical, world. A world where each character has a story to share and where love ultimately triumphs. Beautifully written with descriptions that will remain with you. Translated from the French novel, also published May 2023. Includes a two-page map of its world.

Enter a world both magical and real where squirrels talk, skotis battle with aretis, and friendships are made. Gab and Raphaela the squirrels are delighted to invite Johnny, Paulo, Josiane and Tatiana into their natural, but mystical, world. A world where each character has a story to share and where love ultimately triumphs. Beautifully written with descriptions that will remain with you. Translated from the French novel, also published May 2023. Includes a two-page map of its world.

An established author, Maria Andreas felt moved to write a journal during March and April 2020. A "question-answer-supplication" to a loving God who allows 'the tenth plague' (in the form of the evil little Minus) to delight in death and havoc. It is both a searching, intensely intimate response to the pandemic and a cinematic sweep across a dark and altered world. Readers, with or without faith, will not fail to be moved by Andreas's sensitive and very human observations. Originally published in French, this is an English translation that fully captures the tone and intensity of the original.Two postscripts have since been added, bringing the book up to date as of November 2022.www.mariaandreas.eu and www.hugejam.com

A unique, intimate and moving pilgrimage on an island that Maria Andreas describes with emotion, humour and tenderness. She fell in love with this "big pebble" a while ago. Nearly three decades. She stayed there a long time, learned its language, its history and its culture, before setting down there that which she confides to be "the best part of her heart".Maria has books published in French, German and English and a vibrant engaging website! You'll love this book just like we do, and we hope you'll remember to leave a review. Visit Maria's author website www.mariaandreas.eu, sign up to the publisher's newsletter there or visit www.hugejam.com, and follow her Amazon Author Page.