Its Theme is Forgiveness
The Child from the Sea, Aug 2023 Goudge Read-Along
“I doubt if it is a good book, nevertheless I love it because its theme is forgiveness, the grace that seems to me divine above all others, and the most desperate need of all us tormented and tormenting human beings… and also because I seemed to give to it all I have to give; very little, heaven knows. And so I know I can never write another novel, for I do not think there is anything else to say.”
Elizabeth Goudge, The Joy of the Snow, chapter 15
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