As a young woman who had just turned down the prospect of a brilliant career as an artist to serve Christ, Lilias Trotter's missionary call started as "a strange yearning love for those who were in the land of the shadow of death." Despite being refused by a missionary society on health grounds, she was soon sailing into the port of Algiers to begin an evangelistic work that was total unconventional for a European woman of the day.
The story of her 40 years of the dedication to the task of building Christ's church in North Africa is told in this biography by well- loved author Patricia St. John, who herself worked for 27 years in the same area.
