Holy Disorder
I have a novel coming out in October. The novel is a fictionalised 'biography'. Well they do say that everyone has a novel in them and I guess that I am no exception, although the critical reader will be the best judge of that. The main character is an ordinand David and we meet him at his ordination where he is made Deacon. During the ordination service he reflects on all that had brought him to this point in his life and then the story takes us forward into his new life as curate in the Church of England. Friends who have read the story have been complimentary and my publisher has clearly felt that the novel is worth taking a risk over. There are some risky elements to the story most of which is true but some of. which I have, as someone once complained about novels, ' they read as though someone is making it up as they go along', made up as I went along! So the affair, the attempted rape and the girlfriend who goes off to seek ordination in the USA are? If you ever