June Ahern

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The Skye in June is a coming of age story about a Scottish immigrant family and their youngest child, June, who is clairvoyant. Her visions are not welcomed in her repressive religious household. June and her three sisters come of age during a social upheaval of the 1960's in San Francisco and their parents have their hands full dealing with each child straying from their religious teachings. To worsen matters, June's psychic abilities uncover her mother's long hidden secret. It's a tale of reconciliation and acceptance.

The story unfolds in Glasgow Scotland in the back seat of a cab. Cathy MacDonald is on the way to the hospital to deliver, yet another bairn (child.) June MacDonald’s fate is sealed the day she is born because Cathy defies her husband Jimmy by giving their new daughter a pagan name of June instead of a Catholic saint’s, as is their tradition.

The decision forever sets the MacDonald family on a course for disaster, and no one can foresee that June will grow up to threaten their strong religious beliefs.

When the rollicking Scottish MacDonald family emigrates to San Francisco, California, young June has visions. They haunt Cathy, revealing her secret past in the Scottish Highlands. June’s religiously rigid and abusive father will not tolerate the visions. This does’t stop his feisty redheaded daughter from her interest and curiosity in psychic phenomena and witchcraft.

The family is on the brink of imploding when June and her three sisters come of age in the early 1960’s. "Doomed to hell, every last one of you,” proclaims Jimmy whose four daughters seem to be abandoning Catholicism in favor of the Haight-Ashbury's sexual revolution and psychedelic lifestyle.

June’s life is saved, over and over again, by caring people who help her through a difficult childhood but in order to save June, it is her mother who must take heed of June’s psychic messages before it’s too late.

Not since author Amy Tan's early writings has a woman's voice so strongly resonated from one of San Francisco's most famous neighborhoods. Author June Ahern's powerful coming of age tale, “The Skye in June”, is the evolution of a young psychic and her passage through a unique time and place-–a must read for anyone interested in the drama and complexities of what it might be like growing up psychic. - Jim Toland, "Fire And Fog"

Anyone who loves a good read of San Francisco's history in the 1950's and early days of a new era of the 60s will enjoy this book. It is rich with nuances of Scottish culture and words. The story takes readers through issues of family and how it changes over the years, immigrant challenges, the world of mysticism.