Sheila Stephen, Evangelicals Now
... very readable biography, a combination of fact, fiction and diary entries ... It pulls no punches in its description of 17th and 18th century domestic life ...
Chris Vedder in Christian Bookstore Journal
Giving just enough historical detail to be accurate without becoming tedious, this book leaves one lost in admiration for an outstanding woman and gives valuable insight into John Wesley's background
Product Description
A novelized biography from the viewpoint of Susanna Wesley. Creative and easy to read.
From the Publisher
for readers of historical biography, methodists, clergy wives and any who long for revival in the church. 8pp Colour plates.
From the Back Cover
Susanna Wesley had an eventful life: she had to contend with the cares of motherhood (she bore nineteen children), mounting debts and a church which did not wish to see lay people, especially women, take on spiritual leadership. She is specially known for her formative influence on her son John Wesley, who in turn was to challenge her to renew her relationship with God. Told from the viewpoint of wife and mother, this new dramatisation of the life of Susanna Wesley will interest: any who enjoy a dramatic biographyb including a fire, a ghost, a husband in prison and a daughter who elopes: those interested in the condition of women through history, and the particular pressures of being successively the daughter/wife/mother of various ministers: students of revival will gain a key insight from the pioneering meetings which Susanna organised in her kitchen when Church life was at a low ebb.
