Mister God, This is Anna (1974) Fynn – pseudonym for Sydney Hopkins – tells the story of a 19 year old (16 in some versions) Fynn who befriends and takes in a foundling, 3 year old Anna.

Fynn takes Anna home to Mum who “collected waifs and strays, cats, dogs, frogs, people”. There had been 18-year-old Carol who had stayed for 2 years and “Danny from Canada, who stayed about three years”.

Mister God, This is Anna is filled with religious themes and Anna, as Rhik Samadder wrote in The Guardian 20 April 2020, “is an instinctive theologian”.

Anna asks many questions as she and Flynn are out and about in London, questions that lead her to decide she knows God.