THE ROADMENDER 



Michael Fairless 



This book is e^^traordinarily difficult to define, to fit 

 into a category. Let us say that it is the work of a 

 mystical visionary, cast in semi-fictional form. It is a 

 valediction written by a young woman who knows 

 she is dying, and a prose-song celebrating life and the 

 preparation for a life to come *beyond the white 

 gate'. 



The Roadmender was widely read and deeply 

 loved when it appeared before the First World War. 

 Now, as then, we are in a spiritual vacuum, we doubt 

 the meaning or value of life, we face the imminent 

 collapse of order and traditional values: we are all, 

 the whole world, facing the * white gate' and reflect- 

 ing, before we pass through it, on the richness and 

 joy of Hfe itself. Perhaps we are all *roadmenders' at 

 the end of the road. 



ISBN 7045 0431 6 £3.50 



