The Adventures and Exploits of Mabel Hawkins (deceased) Volume 2
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St Peter is at the end of his tether and it’s all because of the dysfunctional trainee angel by the name of Mabel Hawkins. This spirit is not only spectacularly accident prone but cheerfully unrepentant for any of the disasters she creates. Whether it’s collecting the soul of a dying person, delivering an incarnating spirit into the care of their future mother, or guarding a cache of priceless religious artifacts, Mabel cheerfully goes about the task in her own way, usually with catastrophic and hilarious results. Among her long list of spectacular blunders, she manages to kill a priest, mislay a reincarnating spirit and threaten the balance of the Universe by smuggling her cat into Heaven.
When she has to collect the soul of an airline pilot who’s about to have a heart attack and discovers that one of the passengers is a terrorist, intent on destroying the plane and all on board,Mabel knows she has a problem..
If she shows up at the Pearly Gates accompanied by a couple of hundred recently deceased airline passengers St Peter will assume it’s all her fault and start shouting at her – again. Especially as the passengers include a group of elderly nuns.
Meet Mabel Hawkins, L’Enfant terrible of the angelic realm. Whether her task is to guard some priceless religious artefacts, or simply collect the soul of someone who’s died in their sleep and doesn’t realise that they are dead, every mission ends in disaster. Eventually even the venerable St Peter has to seek advice from a Higher Authority before sending her out on a mission.
A DELIGHTFUL, LAUGH OUT LOUD, ROMP THROUGH THE AFTERLIFE WITH HEAVEN’S MOST DISASTER PRONE TRAINEE ANGEL
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Collecting the soul of an airline pilot who’s about to have a heart attack is all in a day’s work for a trainee angel; but when the angel in question is the disaster prone Mabel Hawkins, things are bound to become complicated. The discovery that one of the passengers is a terrorist, intent on destroying the plane and all on board doesn’t help. If Mabel shows up at the Pearly Gates accompanied by a couple of hundred recently deceased airline passengers, St. Peter will assume it’s all her fault and start shouting at her again; especially as the passenger list includes a group of elderly nuns.
Meet Mabel Hawkins, L’Enfant terrible of the angelic realm. Whether her task is to guard some priceless religious artefacts, or simply collect the soul of someone who’s died in their sleep and doesn’t realise that they are dead, every mission ends in disaster. Eventually, even the venerable St. Peter has to seek advice from a higher authority before sending her out on an assignment.
A delightful, laugh-out-loud romp through the afterlife with Heaven’s most disaster prone trainee angel.About the Author
GEOFF COLLINS was born and raised in England, but managed to escape in his early twenties. After ten years of living in a number of African countries while working as an aircraft maintenance mechanic, he returned to the UK where he spent the next couple of years teaching people to drive and driving mini-cabs at night in London. He then wandered off again, this time following the hippie trail across Europe and Asia, finally ending up in Australia where he became an Australian citizen and trained as a clinical hypnotherapist.
Eventually fate led him to Port Macquarie on the beautiful mid-north coast of New South Wales, where he firmly closed the gate behind him and has refused to move since. In 2004, he began writing short stories with some success in literary competitions, although none of his efforts could truthfully be called literature. A couple of years later, some say when he was horribly hungover, the spirit of a recently deceased little old lady took advantage of his condition and threatened to haunt him forever unless he wrote a book about her afterlife.