Every now and then you find a writer with the ability to absorb you totally into her world...' *

Every saint has a past - and every sinner has a future When Janie Paxton, a young journalist with a chequered and painful past of her own, begins to investigate the life of Mama - visionary, mystical healer, peacemaker to nations - old and terrible memories emerge. Time's mirror distorts: which is the true face of Mama? Miracle - or witchcraft?

Absolute good - or unthinkable evil?

Troubled and baffled, Janie untangles the complex web of disclosure and deceit that is Mama's history. She finds a woman irresistible as a force of nature who chose a path that can only have one end, and Janie's own life is turned upside down as she becomes a reluctant witness to the story of the century.

Powerfully imagined, engrossingly readable,

Saints & Sinners is a story of profound and shocking intensity.