“An Astonishing Work,” The Cloak describes an extraordinary journey of personal transformation

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Debut release by Virginia Routh Lynch tells one woman’s highly personal account of a decades-long exploration to find herself

The Cloak

By Virginia Routh Lynch

Virginia is a young mother living in London in the 1970s and ‘80s who, insomuch as anyone can tell, appears to be doing just fine. She enjoys her work as a book editor with a local publisher, she adores spending time with her four young children, and—as far as even she knows—is happily married to a musician and burgeoning composer. But churning still undetected just under the surface, is an inner turmoil which is about to turn her life on end.

In a gripping account of self-discovery, debut author, Virginia Routh Lynch, explores the personal journey forty years ago of inner and outer transformation that altered the course of her life. Today, Lynch is a retired career psychologist and Jungian psychotherapist, but forty years ago—in the defining decade the book unearths—she was a literary editor who’d married young and was occupied caring for her growing family while struggling to decipher the feelings of listlessness slowly rising within her.

Sewn from a delicate tapestry of diaries and journal entries written over the ten tumultuous years that would shape the rest of her life, in The Cloak, Lynch deftly stitches together a beautiful and compelling portrait of one woman’s life-changing voyage to find—and ultimately become—herself. Following in the footsteps of C.G. Jung, the author describes her own journey of individuation, as she returns to university and down the path of psychological study. Yet, the inspirational and thought-provoking account is written for anyone and everyone.

“Jung’s ideas inspire me and permeate the book’s narrative,” Lynch says. “But the book is intended for the ordinary reader interested in reading about other people’s journeys, and looking for ideas and inspiration.”

The Cloak makes for easy reading in which thematic waters run deep. This, to the author’s own admission, is by design, in an aspiration to reach readers the book stands to touch most—those who, whether consciously aware of it or not, also find themselves on a path of personal transformation looking for an inspirational example to root and guide them.

“When I first started exploring the unconscious forty years ago, it had a shattering effect on my life,” Lynch says. “In describing my experience through this book, I hope to show readers that they too have a golden string running through their lives and encourage them to grasp hold of it and follow it—to inspire them to learn more about themselves and to search for their true self.”

For them, she says, “I hope the book will be revelatory.”