Description
In the quiet Welsh village of Bishop's Eywas the death of Shirley, a little girl with red hair and freckles, inspires a chain of events not to be explained by reason or scientific enquiry.
Parents, friends and neighbours are convinced by Shirley, often in spite of themselves, until everybody is swept away by a belief in the miraculous power of the red-headed child. When Shirley's Guild is founded in support of her, it is a sect and a crusade, as well as a national scandal.
Shirley's Guild (first published 1979) offers an insight into the universal human need to have beliefs and find causes, however irrational, and is a comment on fundamental truths that is as gripping as it is profound.
It is a fable for our times. . . .
