This story from the Antipodes will engage your emotions: empathy and affection for some of its characters, antipathy for others. Real people, real relationships, real struggles and the great fortitude seen in the younger ones will give the reader hours of interest and a real desire to learn more about them and of what happens to them. But first to how it began... Ross Gordon, a young Scotsman, travels halfway around the world to escape his overbearing father and make a life for himself in a new country. In Newcastle, Australia, he rescues the equally audacious farm girl Daphne Cowper and they...

For those interested to know more, this book depicts, through the medium of fiction, or parabolic stories, something of the characteristics, values and behaviours of the sect into which three of the Gordon Girls were led, as described in the novel: "Resilience tried and tested" The novel, of course, is fiction (but based on real people and real events) and so is this sect, but it too, is based, albeit loosely, upon what does exist under the umbrella title of the Plymouth Brethren. This book is intended to depict how this organisation affected the lives of three of the Gordon girls and explain...