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From Santa Maria with Love
Margaret Hebblethwaite
Paperback |208 pp |234 x 156 mm
These rich and colourful stories from a small town in Paraguay have brought readers closer to the lives of the people of the South than any number of news reports or appeals. Margaret Hebblethwaite has shared the hopes and dreams of the men and women of Santa María de Fe for over ten years, and now they will become your neighbours and your friends, too.
Twelve years ago, not long widowed, with children at university, Margaret Hebblethwaite, an English writer and journalist, astonished her friends and family by leaving her job in London and going to live in a small house in Santa María de Fe, a remote, dusty town in one of the former reductions, the settlements for indigenous people created by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th and 18th centuries. Touching, funny and compassionate, this selection from her columns in The Tablet tells the moving story of her time living simply among campesinos in South America. It weaves everyday spirituality and holiness, Latin American history and politics into a moving adventure story
