Gather the Faces

by Beryl Gilroy

Marvella Payne is twenty-seven, works as a secretary for British Rail and has pledged to the congregation of the Church of the Holy Spirit that she will abstain from sex before marriage. When she repulses the groping hands of the trainee-deacon, Carlton Springle, she resigns herself to growing old with her mother, father and Bible-soaked aunts. But Aunt Julie has other ideas and finds Marvella a penfriend from her native Guyana. When good fortune...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0948833882
• ISBN13: 9780948833885
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.