A GEORDIE IN JAPAN
By Olga Rutherford Abrahams
The Memoir Club. 296 pages. £9.95
ISBN 978 1 841 045 122
This book is the life story of an intelligent young Geordie from a socialist home, the story of a most unlikely missionary candidate who eventually spent a lifetime of service in Japan.
Her father taught in the evenings for the Workers Education Association, loved to argue a reasoned position and took a firm socialist stand. Diligent in her studies, Olga passed the Cambridge University entrance at 17 and studied at Girton College.
