Sin-eater charts Jenny Chapman’s journey through trauma and on to transformation. Using stories set in the individual, ancestral and collective unconscious, she investigates the ebb and flow of ancestral trauma and how it has surfaced in her family’s lineage. Over time the author comes to understand that two potent events from as far back as 1685 – the aftermath of a bloody battle and a disinheritance saga – have travelled down the generations.

Jenny’s childhood trauma reflects these time-frozen ancestral patterns with the sequence started by a betrayal and followed by a series of shocks and then a period of entrapment. She works with a psychotherapist and a Rune-master to understand her role in keeping the pattern alive and what needs to happen for both herself and her ancestors to be at peace. First, she must find out exactly who and what is locked into the ghost roads of the land and its people.

Sin-eater is a memoir which investigates ancestral re-enactment and records the author’s authentic trauma resolution ‘process’. It has been written with future family members in mind. As such, it is both unique and universal.