The Voice Of Silence: A Life of Love, Healing and Inspiration

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This is the life story of a woman who has learned more than most from the remarkable things that have happened to her. It is also the author's thoughts on healing, spirituality and love - and how closely the three are intertwined. Shanley-Toffolo was brought up in 1930s rural Ireland where her father initiated her into the healing arts. At the age of 16 she enetered a convent to train as a nurse, and was then sent to India to look after the elderly. Here, she felt it was the young who needed help rather than the old and so she left her job to train in midwifery. In Paris, she was asked to nurse the Duke of Windsor just before he died - and many years later was intoduced to Princess Diana and became her weekly confidante.

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Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo was brought up in Co Leitrim, Ireland, and later trained as a nurse in Dublin. During her two decades as a nun, she served the poor in both France and India. After leaving her order, she continued her nursing career in London and Paris. In 1981 she became one of the first Western women to learn acupuncture in China, following the end of the Cultural Revolution. She has known - and looked after - the two black sheep of the British royal family (Princess Diana and the Duke of Windsor), and also had to come to terms with long periods of serious illness herself. Along the way, she has learned much of great value to pass on to us all. She lives in London.