Most Touching & Informative Book Ever. - Rated 
I am 19 years old & borrowed this book from my mother after she had advised me it was amazing...
It has taken me three days to finish it, impossible to put down, I have been glued to it ever since my mother handed me it.
This book is an inspiration to all, Mia Dolan is certainly gifted & this book really gives hope to people who feel the weight of lifes struggles.
I have learnt a lot from this book about clayrevoyence and will continue to read and research into it now. My outlook on the afterlife & all things related has immensely took a turning for the better.
Would reccomend for everyone to read.
Vicki. x
Produced some interesting discussion - Rated 
This was a fascinating insight into how Mia Dolan discovered and nurtured her psychic gift, aided by her spirit guide, Eric.
An interesting book, I liked the balance of hearing about Mia's life and the development of her Gift. I didn't feel that her hard life was the reason for her psychic powers, more that you either have it or you don't - or maybe everyone has it but doesn't know how to use it.......
I went through a phase when I was fascinated by reincarnation and this covers similar ground.
I must admit that I don't like the idea that you keep coming back into harder and harder lives, learning and 'growing' each time. I'm quite happy with my life, I certainly don't want to come back as an abused woman in Afghanistan or whatever.
I'd like to have heard more about her gift and using it for police work or in similar useful situations.
I felt for her over the raw deal she got trying to get remuneration from the newspapers. Obviously her life has been hard financially as well as in other ways and I'm probably being unfair, but I wanted the gift to be used in more altruistic ways than just telling people whether their partner was bad news. I felt that if it was a 'Gift' then it should be shared, not just used.
Four stars because this is not brilliantly written, but worth a read none the less.
Poor to say the least - Rated 
This was truly awful! I really enjoy misery memoirs, I find them fascinating but this was the worst one so far! The writing was disjointed and unbelievable. One second we having a dodgy relationship and the next there's dogs flying through the air. No way!
The story of her gift takes second fiddle to her talking about her life. Which was dreadful but not fully discussed. The book is jumpy and expects the reader to believe too much. I do believe in tarot cards but I don't believe in how she expressed it. For example when she asks her mother to scan her son - hmmm. Suddenly she has this wonderful gift that she never knew about before and knew how to used it? Yes, well.
I feel Mia Dolan has tried to capture too many audiences with this book and may not succeed in pleasing any.
A badly written misery memoir - Rated 
I find it amazing that this book has so many positive reviews here. I can only surmise that people who aren't going to like it can tell that immediately from the cover and so don't bother to read it. I read it with my reading group and I have to admit it isn't a book I would have chosen for myself.
For a start it's incredibly badly written - simple, sensational, exaggerated and totally without any characterisations. Secondly it doesn't tell the reader much at all about Mia's "gift" - rather it charts her miserable and dysfunctional life (I didn't start warming to her until the bit near the end where she starts taking in waifs and strays). If you want to read about this kind of life then you can pick up a Martina Cole novel and be fascinatingly horrified at the ghastly lives people can find themselves trapped in - and written rather better too!
There was very little about this book that I found credible or believable. I suspect that it was written to make money from the huge market there is currently for "misery memoirs" (and good luck to her too!).
I certainly didn't find the gift itself credible. For instance, take the episode where she gets her mother to do a psychic "health scan" on Tanya and finds a tumour. What are we supposed to think was happening there? That her mother had the gift all along and suddenly worked out how to use it - and then only used it once? Or that Mia somehow lent it to her? She doesn't discuss the implications of this amazing episode at all - just gives it to us to swallow.
Another example - Eric says, more than once, "you saw what will happen not what might happen". That is an incredibly fatalistic statement. If someone really believed that then they would have to not believe in free will, or even random chance; everything is pre-determined. In which case there would be no point in making decisions about anything (because everything is predetermined and you can't change it anyway)!
Overall it is lightweight and easy to read and if you enjoy reading "misery memoirs" then you may enjoy this one. If you are hoping for some insight into psychic phenomena then you are likely to be disappointed.
A Very Special Woman and an Extraordinary Life. - Rated
This was a fantastic book and so easy to read, if you are interested in the spirit world and psychics you will love this book. I found it so easy to read and so interesting I found it hard to put down.
She has had a very extraordinary life and has had some terrible things happen to her while having to except her psychic ability which she didn't get until she was in her twenties. A must read!
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