Andrea Kon is a writer whose mother died when she was three. Her father remarried, but he died in 1985. Her adoptive mother passed away three years later, just 12 hours before the death of Andrea's first husband aged 52. Andrea remarried in 1999. Sceptical about psychics, she always believed you shouldn't disturb the dead and had never visited one - until now. Would she receive a genuine message from any of her family if she tried to contact them? Andrea put three to the test...

Jane Hamilton-Parker Celebrity psychic and medium who featured on Me Big Breakfast and has made numerous TV appearances world-wide with husband Craig

JHP I'm getting someone very close to you, drawing towards the end of their life, out of breath. She says you are very much a perfectionist. I am getting documents... lots of legal papers. She says you have to be careful what you are signing. She's holding a handbag shut, saying you're
not financially needy, but you mustn't give anyone anything.

AK I have no idea what the legal papers might be, or who wants my money.

JHP Would you know about a lady in the spirit world with cancer? She keeps showing me pictures of you with longer hair. The lady is saying, "Three things, they're coming. Don't miss them." [The message of `three things coming' and the warning not to miss them are repeated several times. I'm intrigued.] The lady directed to you is like a mother link. She's very strong around you at the moment. You must have been thinking about this lady.

AK My birth mother died in the Forties, aged 33. She had breast cancer and I'd been thinking about her because this reading is around the anniversary of her death.

JHP The feeling I get is that she is protecting you. She is trying to make things up to you. There has been a lot of sadness in the past. Is there a picture of the lady in a nice silver frame? A black and white photograph with her hair parted slightly on the side in a wave?

AK I forgot about a photo of her with my father in a small silver frame. I saw it as soon as I walked through my front door-and shuddered: her hair is slightly waved and parted to one side, just as Jane had described.

JHP Has there been someone who has had problems with prostate please? Who is it? Don't write him off yet.

AK My husband has just had surgery for prostate cancer.

JHP Would there be a lady who had an arthritic condition please? I'm getting a lady who is saying, "Look at my hands. My hands are perfect. They weren't in this world, but they are now." She's showing me a shop-front. Is there a piece of jewellery associated with this lady that has been left to you?

AK 1 have a photograph of my adoptive mother Jean as a child in front of her father's shoe shop. She had severe rheumatoid arthritis. Her hands were curled back on themselves and horribly disfigured. I said `no' to the jewellery but later remembered a little gold brooch in the shape of a coach and horses which she left me.

JHP Does the name Oliver mean anything to you? Who is Oliver? Who is James?

AK My grandson's name is Jamie Oliver.

JHP Don't worry. Nothing is going to happen to this child. This lady is looking down on him. Who is Sarah?

AK My late mother-in-law. It was also the name of my second husband's late mother.

JHP Is there anything to do with Polish connections? What does that mean to you?'

AK My paternal grandfather was born in Poland.

JHP Have you worn two wedding rings? Do you get frightened of the future? You are frightened of being on your own. You will never be alone.

AK Yes, I have and yes, I do.

JHP I see a gentlemen who'd had difficulty breathing, pointing to his heart. I don't know what is wrong with his eyes - he is also pointing to his eyes - very blue eyes. He looks younger. I don't know if it's a medal or badge he is showing me. He has just held it up to prove it's him. He is laughing at it.

AK My late father had startling blue eyes. He suffered from diabetes, which affected his eyes towards the end of his life. He died from a heart attack. As a 17-year-old, he was a champion runner. His medal is now in my brother's possession.

VERDICT Amazing. Jane did suggest a number of things that made no sense, but I came out of the reading shaking because so much was accurate. Jane was anxious throughout that I didn't try to make anything `fit'. She gave me a rose quartz stone for my husband to wear in his pocket for
healing, and a little plastic angel with a red heart to put next to my mother's photo. I was a sceptic, but I've done as she suggested. Jane told best Obviously things come through' that have no immediate meaning. There is no sense of time in the spirit world. However, I'm obviously delighted that the reading was so pertinent.


ANDREA'S FINAL VERDICT
I was surprised that my first husband
didn't try to contact me but, much to my
amazement, I felt strangely comforted by what Jane Hamilton-Parker had to say. I would go and see her again. But I wouldn't go back to any of the others I saw. What made Jane better than the rest? Maybe you really do get what you pay for...

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