Written by Fr. John H. McGoey

Published by Gall, 1982, paperback, 280 pages. New book but showing its age.

The pages of this deceptively gentle book are alive with courage, and humour, and human understanding. Father McGoey describes his boyhood years in a large, happy Toronto family; his reasons for entering the priesthood; his training as a young seminarian; the subsequent years of missionary work in China – war, deprivation, and the series of terrible illnesses which almost destroyed him in body, but never in spirit.