The book opens with a pre-birth remembrance by our author of a command to be born in order to learn to love God. Life is full of loss, gut wrenching grief and abject poverty of soul. Homelife is bitter, grievous and cruel. Our heroine is a child yearning for protection and genuine love, instead she's afflicted with cruel, callous nurture from dysfunctional parents. Left to her own resources and free from any decent guidance she lives and tragic...