Grace writ large

Anon  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Jul 2002
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SHANNON
By Damaris Kofmehl
Hodder & Stoughton.. 259 pages. £6.99
ISBN 0 340 78648 5

The claim on the front cover, this time at least, seems to have it right. 'The incredible true story of one girl's journey from darkness to light', it says.

I was surveying, with a customarily critical eye, the 'New Books' shelves in a Christian bookshop. I picked up Shannon and examined it. 'The story of a girl who, from frightening depths of open sin, at last discovered the love of Christ. A former member of one of the most infamous gangs in Cleveland, Ohio, whom God turned around.'

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