Who is Barberi?

Barberi Paull Feit has been graced with a very interesting professional life as a composer, psychotherapist, publisher, speaker and author. She wrote and published "The Love Letter," a print newsletter about love and relationships in the nineties, which she has since evolved into www.theloveletter.net, a free eNewsletter. Barberi conceived of a series of books and music based in angelic legend for which she is writing both the books and music. The series was begun with publication of the book, The Angel Chronicles: The Guardian Angels Books I-V by The Angel Auberon. It is the story of the beginning of human life and of how the assembly of Guardian Angels was formed to care for all living beings. The music CD companion to the book is entitled Angel Music. With Love and Dreams Barberi explores the two other subjects that continue to fascinate: the grand society of New York, and love.

Love and Dreams is a romance set in the context of New York society in a period that spans the last century. The story is woven into New York's richly textured social history and the rituals established by New York's first settlers: the WASP gentry and the German-Jewish aristocracy. Love and Dreams tells of friendship and of love. Love is powerful and the characters of this story Ogden Graves, Bandit and Charlotte Hutchins, Henley and Hayes Buchanan, Andy Morgan, Alice Munro Gonzalez, Vera Whitmore, and others are touchingly human. A story of friendship and love is always a story of loss. People die. But Love and Dreams is a celebration of everyday miracles, and of the lasting power of love in all of the different forms in which it comes to us. The characters of Love and Dreams live in a world of unqualified privilege and experience. As we join them in their struggles and triumphs, we understand them only too well. Their names may be Ogden or Charlotte or Andy. But they are really ourselves.

"It's about time she shared with us her remarkable insight into human life . . what she has seen to be true of women . . and, of particular note in Love and Dreams, to be true of men." --Mary-Leighton Land Smith