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      Gather the Faces

      by Beryl Gilroy
      Published
      Jul 2001
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      120
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      Marvella Payne is twenty-seven, works as a secretary for British Rail and has pledged to the congregation of the Church of the Holy Spirit that she will abstain from sex before marriage. When she repulses the groping hands of the trainee deacon, Carlton Springle, she resigns herself to growing old with her mother, father and Bible-soaked aunts. But Aunt Julie has other ideas and finds Marvella a penfriend from her native Guyana. When good fortune allows the couple to meet, Marvella awakens to new possibilities as she realises how bound she has been by the voices of her dependent, cosseted childhood. But will marriage be another entrapment, another loss of self?

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      First Edition Jul 2001 Peepal Tree Press ISBN13 9780948833885 ISBN10 0948833882
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