Karina's Song: Searching for the Greatest Love of All (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781516910588)

Jenny Robertson was born in 1963 to an Irish mother and a Scottish father in Derbyshire UK and immigrated to Australia in 1970 at the age of six and a half. Arriving in Perth Western Australia her family relocated to a remote mining town in the Pilbara, Port Hedland where she spent her childhood. After leaving home at the age of 16, Jenny spent many years moving from place to place around Australia and in 2000 decided to move to the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland. A single mother with her two children, they eventually settled in the picturesque town of Malanda until her children finished school and left home to pursue their own careers. These days, Jenny is quite settled on a small rural property with her partner Gary just outside of Malanda, though she admits the wandering gypsy running through her veins tugs at her occasionally. Jenny has been an avid volunteer and advocate for many community groups and organisations including youth issues, festivals and theatre as well as Telethon fundraising. She is well known and loved by many as "The Herbal Gypsy" or "Gypsy Jen", and is renowned for her "Gypsy Chocolate Chai" as well as her mad antics on stage playing "Bluegrass" spoons. Jenny runs workshops, seminars and courses on Numerology, Self-Awareness, Personal Development and Spiritual Self-Help as well as a program she founded called "Who Am I?" At 49 years old Jenny suffered 2 heart attacks and underwent a quadruple bypass which set her on a whole new path of self-discovery. She believes her heart just got too worn out and needed a good overhaul so she could start again. The following year she was finally made it back to Ireland to reunite with her mother's side of the family after forty four years. On a second trip she was able to live there for a few months "reclaiming her Irish heritage" and getting to know her family more. She believes brutal truth and a great sense of humour are the keys to understanding what she calls her "Karmic journey" and the harsh challenges that she chose for herself in this life. In typical Gypsy Jen style she intends to chase her higher self with a baseball bat yelling "what were you thinking?" when she finally crosses over to the other side. Jenny is currently working on her second book, and saving hard to return to the UK. "Whatever life has in store for me these days I know I am definitely not alone. Isn't that exciting?" she laughs with a twinkle in her eye.