A third-generation gypsy palm-reader reveals his secret knowledge for the first time. Johnny Fincham reveals, for the first time in print, the existence and location of the palmistry's long-sought-after passion line, the key to understanding an individual's sexuality. Using a balance of objectivity and native intuition, both the result of twenty years of reading, teaching and researching palmistry, this book leads readers gently through the journey to becoming a master palmist. With 160 illustrations and lucid instructions, Johnny Fincham shows how a good hand reading can be an enlightening, revelatory, magical experience, revealing knowledge that can literally change lives.
I'm a forty-seven year old single, childless, professional palmist and writer, the eldest of five dyslexic, deranged and dysfunctional children. My mother had a gallon of gypsy blood in her and my father was a war veteran, able to turn his hand to just about anything.
I was born in and spent my earliest times in a draughty beach hut in Walbaswick, Suffolk, UK. Later on, the ever-growing family upped sticks and moved to Lowestoft, also in Suffolk. I spent a goodly chunk of my life there, almost succumbing to the cloying sea-mists, massive alcohol consumption and sticky sands of that drab town.
Though possessed by a love of words and language, I was not a good citizen, in court 28 times and spent a very short period of time in prison on remand (for car theft). Dyslexic, desperate and ill-educated, I was mad for the material things I imagined would give my life lustre.
A lust for learning kicked in at last at age 28. I forged and fiddled my way into the University of East Anglia as a mature student.
I did English literature and loved it. At that time, that avuncular, easy-going, Malcolm Bradbury taught under-grads creative writing. I drank up the classes like a parched desert absorbs water.
I decided I was going to be a writer. I left UEA, wrote thirty or forty short stories, sold none and sulked for three years.
Then through a mix of ancestral urges and amazing co-incidence I stumbled into the trade of palmistry. Though a total sceptic, I met a world- class palmist who convinced me of its value and educated me in its subtle intricacies. Since that time I've earned a living as a palmist and subsidised my income with writing.
I've had a short story - 'Unbearable Brightness' published, along with various other short stories and articles. Encouraged by this success, I went on to write 'The Spellbinding Power of Palmistry' and 'Palmistry-Apprentice to Pro in 24 Hours'. I wrote these books out of frustration at the mass of books out there that were full of outdated references and gobbledegoook.
For five years though, my main focus way my SF novel, 'While the Gods Sleep.' A love story really, with it's main theme being deception, and the way information will be manipulated completely in the near future.
I'm currently working on 'Nearly Normal' a novel about a poor kid growing up, rebelling against his raggle-taggle gypsy mother and dying to be normal. In all my books, stories and works, I'm fascinated by the underlying realities at work beneath the surface of experience.
