Much-Afraid is frightened of everything. She walks with a limp. Her relatives, Fear and Cruelty, mock her constantly. And yet the Shepherd calls her to journey with him to the High Places. What follows is one of the most tender and psychologically honest allegories of healing ever written. Hurnard understood that the path to wholeness passes directly through our deepest fears rather than around them. For any reader who feels too broken, too afraid or too damaged to be healed, Much-Afraid's journey is a profound and gentle invitation to keep walking.