Tristram Jones was a child who wanted to be good. Unfortunately, his idea of what was good was limited by the Jehovah’s Witness religion.
Tristram’s parents were not Jehovah’s Witnesses. His father was agnostic, and his mother was eccentric.
Holly, his mother, was a strong, intelligent woman with her own peculiar ideas on spirituality. One of her peculiar ideas was that Tristram was blessed by Jehovah whilst she was pregnant with him. Hence, she was quite proud when at ten years old, Tristram organised his own bible study with a young elder for the small country town of Bairnsdale.
Russell, Tristram’s father, approved of the moral fibre that his son was developing under the influence of the Witnesses. However, he hoped along with Holly that Tristram would eventually lighten up. Fear of
