The Infallible Fortune Teller

The best stories are true stories


Tehran, 1969. An Assyrian fortune teller, famed for her accurate predictions, informs a young woman, Mahin, that she will meet a young man with blond hair and blue eyes, and will travel the world.


John, a British Engineer, who has been posted on a temporary assignment to Iran receives an invitation to the races. To his amazement, a breathtakingly beautiful young woman and her friends appear to be pointing at him. John is stunned by her appearance and bewildered by their attention. 


This creative non-fiction book, a romantic memoir reveals the thoughts and reactions of two people drawn from very different cultures as they fall passionately and irretrievably in love, leading to an impulsive and unpremeditated proposal of marriage.


This experience and another fortune teller’s revelations many years later, beg the question, ‘Are we really in control of our destinies?’