Selina of Sussex

About the Book

With realistic imagination woven around true facts and through the eyes of his grandfather’s grandmother, the author leads us back into Sussex country life in the nineteenth century. Selina, from the village of Ripe, marries Eli, a young farmer who receives a call to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Her strong and capable support whilst bringing up fourteen children enables her husband to enlarge his farming activities whilst pursuing his life’s work as preacher and Baptist pastor. Selina reveals her struggles and fears as she carries the family, the farm and in many ways her husband too.

About the Author

Leonard Holder was born in Brighton, Sussex on the 69th birthday of his grandfather, Ebenezer Dan, the grandson of Selina and Eli Page. He inherited a real love for the countryside that Eli had loved and as a teenager felt God’s call to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For several years he preached in some of the same Sussex chapels that Eli had helped to establish. In 1983 Len moved to Switzerland with his wife Phyl and their two sons. Today Len & Phyl run Haus Barnabas in the Black Forest, welcoming guests from around the world. (www.haus-barnabas.com)