She died with a grin on her beautiful face. She died saying, 'I bet Mister God lets me get into heaven for this'." Fynn experiences a period of angst, blaming God, but when he visits Anna's grave and sees it to be a riot of flowers, he lets go of his anger against God. The answer, he realizes, is "Anna is in my middle". This particular reference is to a conversation between Anna and Fynn. God is part of everybody and everybody is part of God. Fynn walks away from her graveyard with renewed hope. The sequels to Mister God, This Is Anna are Anna's Book (1986) and Anna and the Black Knight (1990). Author Sydney George Hopkins (26 March 1919 - 3 July 1999), as a teenager and young adult, lived in the East End of London in the early 1930s. He was briefly drawn towards the politics of Oswald Mosley, but soon became disillusioned. He won a scholarship to a local grammar school, Cooper's Company College, London E3, and left aged 15 to work for The Russian Oil and Petroleum Company, where he had aspirations of becoming a research chemist. Following a fall off a cliff he suffered chronic insomnia and in 1939 was referred to Finchden Manor in Kent, a therapeutic community run by George Lyward O.B.E., and later joined the staff. Theologian Vernon Sproxton commented that Hopkins' "most formative thinking took place far from the quads and colleges and punted rivers amongst the small streets, warehouses, and canals of the East End. But with his modest job and his Woolworth's do-it-yourself laboratory he produced thought to which few PhD's have approximated." It is not clear to what extent the story is autobiographical, and how much is fictional. In his preface to both the British and American editions of the book, Vernon Sproxton remarks that he has seen Anna's drawings and notes and that he believes her to be real. There is some uncertainty about Fynn's age on first encountering Anna. Early editions of the book say he was nineteen, but this would be impossible if he was to know Anna for three years before the outbreak of war, and in the latest editions of Mister God, This Is Anna his age has been amended to sixteen. Sources Mr Lyward's Answer by Michael Burn (Hamish Hamilton, 1956) George Lyward – His Autobiography by John Lyward (Lulu, 2008)