The Small Woman Who Found a Kingdom

In 1930, Gladys Aylward stood on a London train platform with a one-way ticket to China and a suitcase held together with a cord. The China Inland Mission had rejected her — too old at twenty-seven, they said, too uneducated. Her parents begged her to stay. But Gladys had heard a call she could not refuse, and she boarded the Trans-Siberian Railway alone.…