Her father's constant mantra was: 'the further away from family, the better.' As a result, Annette and her family followed him around the UK, then to Ethiopia, returning home to two English towns, before emigrating to the horrors of apartheid-era South Africa, which proved to be the family's nemesis.
Annette found that life had become meaningless. Her brother, Eric, found solace in drugs - at 11.
It was only taking time to care for her terminally ill mother that the clear, prophetic dreams she'd had as a young girl had the space to emerge once more. These then set out her destiny, and she learnt to trust them with her life. The resulting quest revealed the true, hyperconnected cosmos at the root of everything: Quantum Reality.
Who could you become, if you really trusted your dreams?
And can people still be kind?