I Wish I Was (ISBN 9781860247019, price £7.99) is the story of the abusive childhood of Anona Coates, wife of Pioneer leader Gerald Coates.
After years of physical, emotional and sexual abuse, she discovered that she was adopted, and that her father had been a German prisoner-of-war. Anona's childhood was so miserable that when a friend suggested to her that she might be adopted, she replied 'I wish I was.' However, it was not until she was 43 that she found out this was the case, and the book charts her search for both her birth parents.
I Wish I Was also covers the early years of the Pioneer church movement.