The Choice, Michael Arditti

The Choice, Michael ArdittiNew Paperback As a woman in the early 1980s, Clarissa Phipps is unable to pursue her priestly vocation. Instead, she joins the BBC, where she is sent to interview the artist Seward Wemlock about the panels he is painting for an ancient Cheshire church. Thirty years on, now rector of that same church, she chances upon Brian, the chief bell ringer and husband of her closest friend, fondling fifteen year old David. David claims they are in love, but

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