Voices: A Doris Stokes Collection

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Today the flats – backing onto Chelsea Football ground – are smart and desirable; modernised out of all recognition. Which made it the perfect moment – the Features Editor decided one morning, chewing her pen thoughtfully as the sun sweltered in through the non-opening windows of our new office – for a light, not too serious series on the supernatural. Many claim that during the week they pursue ordinary, down-to-earth careers – they’re builders, teachers, hairdressers, nurses, and so on – while others seem to be retired grandmas with lifelong records of good behaviour, unblemished by so much as a parking ticket.

In 1980, her first, written with Linda Dearsley, autobiographical volume, Voices In My Ear: The Autobiography of a Medium was published, pulling her further into the public eye in the UK. This second collection of her bestselling books brings together many more of her remarkable and moving experiences.In Innocent Voices In My Ear, Doris tells of her special relationship with children and her psychic communications with children of every age; from the heroic young men of the Falklands War, to the sixteen-year-old hostage of a ruthless gunman and the tragic stars who died too young: John Lennon, Marc Bolan and Richard Beckinsale. I think people warmed to Doris because of her natural mumsy style and the fact that she was exactly the same on and off stage. After she passed on, tax bills arrived and the family had to sell Doris’ modest house in SE London and auction off her personal possessions to pay the bills. Stokes co-wrote seven volumes of autobiography, but some of the events she describes in them have been questioned. Is this what GK Chesterton meant when he said, ‘When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything’?

Other participants included "camp followers", who regularly attended the shows and repeatedly received messages from the same people. The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. Copyright © Dark River 2019 Linda Dearsley has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 to be identified as the author of this book. Most of them seem well aware that the world is full of scoffers, yet still they persist in beliefs that the critics insist are irrational. In turn, as the months and years rolled by, more and more intriguing people crossed Linda’s path, each with their own unexplainable power, and Doris never seemed far away.The rag-tag army of self-proclaimed mediums, psychics, healers, tarot-card readers, shamans, and angel oracles just seem to shrug its shoulders and keep on growing.