Virginia Leishman

In the aftermath of World War II men and women throughout Europe and Asia start to rebuild their lives. In Japan an English soldier assesses the impact of the defeat and the occupation, whilst a young Australian woman tends to her dying brother. Some explicit sexual content.

Moll Flanders is born in Newgate prison to a petty thief and is soon left at the mercy of whoever will take her in. From this unfavorable beginning, the lusty, resourceful Moll loves and bargains her way from rags to riches, from prostitution in the streets of London to prosperity on a Virginia plantation.

Sequel to 'Through the Narrow Gate' (5713). The author, a former nun, describes her 'flight from institutional religion' and how through studying other religious traditions she found a very different kind of faith which drew from Christianity, Judaism and Islam and,eventually, spiritual and personal calm.