"Angels in My Hair" by Lorna Byrne

Review of a Modern Irish Mystic's Autobiography

Apr 27, 2009 Renate Oetjens

Dublin native Lorna Byrne has been seeing angels since she was a baby. In "Angels in My Hair" she tells the astonishing story of her life and experiences.

When Lorna Byrne grew up in 1950's Dublin, she was regarded as retarded; today she says in her autobiography that the angels kept her human contact limited to protect her purity while teaching her everything that mattered.

In her inspiring memoir titled Angels in My Hair, she describes in detail how the angels have been communicating with her and she describes the spiritual entities with whom she's been communicating.

Her moving autobiography Angels in My Hair was published in the United States on April 28, 2009 after becoming a bestseller in Ireland in 2008.

A Difficult Childhood Prepared Lorna Byrne for a Special Life

Lorna Byrne begins her book by describing vividly how she saw angels and communicated with them from the day she was born. While she was not aware of being different from other people for quite a while, her family found her withdrawn and unfocused.

Written off as mentally retarded, Lorna felt less loved than her brothers and sisters and she did not always find the acceptance and support she longed for.

While she also struggled in school, she received private lessons from angels like Archangel Michael and the prophet Elijah. Her distance to her family and the other children in school proved helpful for her to learn about different orders of angels, their tasks and other spiritual beings.

Listening to Angels - Spiritual Guidance In Everyday Life

In the course of her fascinating story, Lorna Byrne talks about several occasions when the angels surrounding her prepared her for future events. Sometimes this was intended to help her prepare her mind for difficult times she had to face herself. Meeting the love of her life, getting married and having children were followed by seeing her husband die young.

In other cases, Lorna was sent into situations to prevent accidents. But often she was not able or even expected to prevent inevitable events like deaths – she was enabled by the angels to support people and ease their pain, though. These various tales of loss and mourning offer comfort and mercy by opening up new perspectives on eternal life.

Lorna Byrne's Message - All People Can Be in Touch with their Angels

"Wouldn't it be wonderful, if everybody knew that they could fit thousands of angels in one pocket, just like snowflakes, and be able to carry them around with them and never be alone." This quote from the spirit of Lorna's dead baby brother sums up the author's wish to share her own experiences and to encourage readers to seek their own angels' guidance by simply inviting them into their lives, independent from their confessional beliefs.

In Angels in My Hair she gives hints how to invite angels into one's life and states that every person has spiritual abilities – it's a decision whether to use them or not. Lorna Byrne describes her celestial contacts in a pleasantly down-to-earth way. In simple words and conversational style she succeeds in picturing her inconceivable visions in great detail. This is not a typical self-help book, though, but an individual life story.

Lorna Byrne's Inspires to Seek Spiritual Guidance

Whether her experiences are real and her stories true, can hardly be judged from the book. Could she be a fraud or is she a true mystic?

Journalist Sue Leonard, who interviewed her for the Irish newspaper Independent in June 2008, describes meeting Lorna Byrne with a critical, but open mind. She found the author an extraordinary woman, who struck her as gentle, serene and a bit shy – and felt strangely recharged and buzzing with energy after the interview.

This memoir, which hit the bestseller list in Ireland in 2008, is an uplifting inspiration to seek for what is not always visible and to raise awareness for signs of divine intervention, to strive for faith, love and kindness and to aim for spiritual guidance. And maybe one day some readers will also feel the angels tousling their hair, as the book title suggests.

Byrne, Lorna. Angels in my Hair, 2009, Doubleday, 320 pages. ISBN 978-0385528962

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Angels in My Hair By Lorna Byrne