Road to Bluebeard's Castle

by Jean Marie Ivey

Overview

She was born into a world of grown-ups,

lonely and afraid

As a child, her early impressions came from fairy tales, creating a world apart from the reality of life. This is a journey of duality-yin and yang, good and evil.

She wanted to shed light on the experiences of her life, with the goal of enlightening others to the fact that they are not alone and can escape, as she did, the imprisonment of her own mind.

Because of isolation, fear, and abuse, she became so dependent on, first, her mother and then her husbands that she could not imagine being able to take care of herself or her children without them. Her mind remained that of a child's.

Breaking free and healing was a revelation she felt compelled to share, hoping to offer hope to others feeling trapped. She wants to help them open the door.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798899223471
Publisher:	Page Publishing
Publication date:	09/15/2025
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Jean Marie Ivey was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938. She moved with her family to Hyde Park, New York, in 1964, then Shepherdstown, West Virginia, for six short months and finally moved to Maine in 1966 to live and raise her family in and near Acadia National Park. The Road to Bluebeard's Castle is the story ending in 1978 of the first forty years of her life. In the early eighties, she began a new life, a thirty-three-year career at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. During that time, she also pursued a part-time career in photography, freelance writing, and illustrating, coauthoring the book Maine Paradise with Russell D. Butcher published by Viking Press in 1972. In 1993, she cowrote and co-illustrated Facts and Fancy: Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island; and in 2018, Jean Marie, along with her daughter Donna Marie Lee, published a new and revised edition of Facts and Fancy that contains many fine points pertaining to the history and essence of Mount Desert Island in Acadia. Although she loves to write, paint, sing, and garden, her greatest love is her family: seven children, fourteen grandchildren, and three great-grandsons. In 2016, she published her first novel Cassie's Dream that grew out of that love. The novel was an enthralling voyage through time as explored through the dreams and visions of the main character, Cassandra Wright. Her next novel The Vine and the Cross is a story of romance and mysticism. Jean Marie's life has been full of music, art, mysticism, influence of ancestry, history, and a deep and abiding love of Maine.