‘Here, the jumble of ideas that I’ve had in my head is made almost coherent.’

Light to Live By: Helen Johnson gets to a Rex Ambler classic

Close-up of book cover. | Photo: Quaker Books.

The trouble with this Quakerism business is it requires each of us to find our own truth. None of this settling for pre-packaged dogma and/or conclusions. We struggle on – and then pick up a book we’ve known about for ages, and there it seemingly all is (or a least, something very well set out). The real question – or at least, its supplementary – becomes: ‘Why did it take me so long to read it?’ Here, the jumble of ideas that I’ve had in my head is made almost coherent.

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