SHANNON
By Damaris Kofmehl
Hodder & Stoughton.. 259 pages. £6.99
ISBN 0 340 78648 5
The claim on the front cover, this time at least, seems to have it right. 'The incredible true story of one girl's journey from darkness to light', it says.
I was surveying, with a customarily critical eye, the 'New Books' shelves in a Christian bookshop. I picked up Shannon and examined it. 'The story of a girl who, from frightening depths of open sin, at last discovered the love of Christ. A former member of one of the most infamous gangs in Cleveland, Ohio, whom God turned around.'
