GOD’S NEEDLE:
Healing and Hope in the Land of the
Witchdoctors
By Lily Gaynor and John Butterworth
10 Publishing. 225 pages. £8
ISBN 978 1 914 966 286
If you haven’t picked your summer biography yet, this could be it. Helen Roseveare, Lily’s peer and one for whom this story resonated, wrote in the Foreword: ‘I couldn’t put it down’!
Lily Gaynor, despite failing her 11+, became a highly qualified nurse, midwife, and linguist. She worked for 35 years as a missionary amongst the unreached Papel tribe in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa with WEC International.
