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Stories that Heal

My story

My name is Victoria Costello

WELCOME. I'm so glad you found me. Suffice to say, my professional and personal lives have often overlapped. At best, each has fed the other. In hard times, as a single mother of two sons carrying a heavy load of family trauma, I've managed to keep us alive, even thrive, by committing to three central pillars of my life: creativity — and for me that means writing — community, and spiritual practice. 

In recent years, one question has guided my creative process — what if? What if 21st century descendants of a lineage like mine discovered a current crisis in their lives could be linked directly to an ancestral tragedy. And what if they also found the same ancestor had passed on to one of their own a heretofore unrecognized gift. In ORCHID CHILD, the gift of second sight manifests in a troubled teenage boy whose ability to see what others can't opens a portal connecting the present with the past, offering a path to healing for both ends of the lineage. These titles are available everywhere books are sold. Scroll below for book reviews and excerpts and recent interviews.

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ORCHID CHILD reflects the author's fascination with ancestry; how the legacies of those who came before us can appear in our lives in mysterious ways, and the challenges faced by second and third generation descendants of immigrants who wish to understand and reclaim their ancestry. 

Victoria Costello's published memoir, A LETHAL INHERITANCE
Ancestral writing by Victoria Costello
Victoria Costello's debut novel, ORCHID CHILD

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