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God's Guinea Pig
by Margaret Freeman |
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UK
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£15.95
US price:
$13.99
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 162
ISBN: 0-595-31056-7
Published: Feb-2004
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The enthralling and
courageous story of a woman
who became a priest in the
Church of England, having
survived one of the first
open heart operations and
persevered against
deep-rooted prejudices
against women in the clergy.
Book Description
Reverend Margaret Anne
Freeman was born in 1927
with a serious and
complicated heart
defect, Fallot’s
Tetralogy. She was not
expected to live very
long at all, let alone
walk or have children.
She defied expectations,
and today works as a 76
year old retired priest
in Norfolk.
This autobiography tells
how she gained and kept
her Christian faith
during war and countless
personal tragedies,
whilst breaking records
as she went. She became
the first adult to
survive open-heart
surgery, and the first
such survivor to have
children. It also tells
of the enormous struggle
she had over the
Ordination of women in
the Church of England.
This is an enthralling
story that will grip the
reader with every turn
of the page.
About the author
After she was made a
deaconess in St Nicholas
Church, Great Yarmouth,
Margaret Freeman responded
to a call to the priesthood.
She writes: “On June 26th,
1994, the Guinea Pig became
a priest. I have no idea how
many laid hands on me. All I
know is that I had an
overwhelming feeling that
history was being made.”