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A rich and powerful exploration of desire, sin and redemption, by one of our best chroniclers of faith in the 21st century.
I enjoyed it enormously. The story is so interesting, the theme so important and pertinent, and the fluency and lightness of touch so engaging to read. PHILIP PULLMAN
A novel that probes any number of aggressive varieties of moralism, while testing the reader''s own moral alertness for rigour, realism and generosity. An engrossing, three-dimensional, grown-up narrative. ROWAN WILLIAMS
An irresistibly readable, thoughtful and characteristically witty examination of the quandaries and compromises faced by the Church of England in an era of decline . . . I loved this book for its lightness of touch about serious subjects and for dialogue that glitters like clashing rapiers. MIRANDA SEYMOUR
As a woman in the early 1980s, Clarissa Phipps is unable to pursue her priestly vocation. Instead, she joins th
