Book title: Beneath the surface
Author: Marion Savage
The book starts by introducing Ian Cressley, a young man of about 27. He is an Australian visiting England in about the 1960's, coming via steam-liner. He is on his way to see his elderly aunt to deliver a letter from his mother, and sight-see in the British Isles for a year. You later learn he is a strong Christian, and ready to do the LORDs Will wherever he is. He and his aunt Amelia hit it off right away, and he decides to stay with her for a while. She runs a private hotel an and he meets all the guests there. Over time he will change their lives for Christ, including several of the staff, and the housekeeper's son; a wild boy of 16. Among the staff is the pretty secretary Dale; whom Ian feels very attracted to, but she won't let him get past a purely polite greeting sort of relationship. Can he win her heart? Why is she so averse to the gospel, and why does she always look so haunted?
