Anne Hope is well known as president of the lay Catholic community The Grail in South Africa, as co-founder of the acclaimed Training for Transformation programme for community development, and for her important work in the struggle against apartheid.

Less is known about her dramatic and inspiring inner journey. Here, drawing on unique access to Anne's diaries and prayer journals, Stephanie Kilroe sheds light on this previously hidden life and her struggle for freedom and wholeness in herself, in vocation, and in love.