Tales from Lindford
Tales from Lindford, the (unexpected) fourth novel in the Lindchester Chronicles by Catherine Fox, finds the residents of Lindchester facing challenging times as 2020 unfolds . . .
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Catherine Fox is Academic Director of the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her debut novel, Angels and Men (reissued in 2014), was a Sunday Times Pick of the Year. It was followed by The Benefits of Passion and Love for the Lost (both reissued in 2015). The Lindchester Chronicles series began with Acts and Omissions, which was chosen as a Guardian Book of 2014, and now numbers four volumes – Unseen Things Above (2015), Realms of Glory (2017) and Tales from Lindford (2021) - each complete in itself. Catherine is married to the Bishop of Sheffield and is a judo black belt.
Lyrical, compelling and full of insight. I found this very hard to put down.
I hope Catherine Fox will forgive me if I say she doesn't write like an angel; she writes like a human being, with immense compassion, unsentimental faith and an impressively undisciplined humour. Not many writers give such a vivid sense of what it is actually like to try and live in the light of absolute mercy. Very few indeed do it with such brilliance and freshness of language.
Bitter-sweet . . . but all the usual qualities of empathy, wit and unflaunted piety
True, kind, sharp and so beautifully written. Brings it all back, the dull ache of lockdown, but lightened by a shimmering veil of wit, compassion and just – precisely – the right words.
What makes Realms of Glory such a delight is the humour, humanity and the strong characters . . . that come off the page and hang around in your head . . . This is not safe Christian fiction, because we don't live in a safe Christian world.
What a treat it is to have some Fresh Expressions from the diocese of Lindchester. Catherine Fox’s second helping of bad language, sex and Evensong is Anglicanism at its best; her wit, compassion and rueful optimism are irresistible.
Catherine Fox's glorious Lindchester series is the twenty-first-century answer to Trollope's Barchester - but Trollope was never so funny, so fundamentally kind, or so mischievously attentive to grace.
Unsure what to buy the Trollope devotee in your life for Christmas? Look no further than Catherine Fox’s Acts and Omissions and Unseen Things Above for a refresher course not only in cathedral politics, but also a set of profound, although lightly drawn, insights into the contemporary Anglican communion.
These books are utterly unputdownable, gossipy, subtle and wise. What’s astonishing is that despite Catherine Fox’s sharp awareness of the feet of clay under surplices, she somehow makes you believe several cheering things that most modern fiction doesn’t: that the natural world is endlessly beautiful, that most people aspire to goodness even if they fall flat on their faces, and that the attempt to live a good life is worthwhile.
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'Lyrical, compelling and full of insight. I found this very hard to put down.'
KATIE FFORDE, THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR
'Catherine Fox writes with immense compassion, unsentimental faith and an impressively undisciplined humour.'
ROWAN WILLIAMS, FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
January 2020. Freddie, Father Dominic, Jane and all the other residents of Lindfordshire are celebrating the New Year with parties and resolutions. None of them is aware of the trials and tribulations the coming months will bring - not least the horseman of the apocalypse who has set out quietly, with barely a jingle of harness, in a distance province of China...
Return to Lindchester once more with Tales from Lindford, the fourth in the beloved series of novels from Catherine Fox. Valiantly written in real time in the midst of the pandemic, this entertaining book captures the difficulties of 2020 with heart, humour and insight. Perfect for Lindchester fans, it's also the ideal novel for anyone seeking comfort and a way of understanding all that has been happening.
A twenty-first century Barchester that fans of Barbara Pym and the BBC's Rev will love, this new volume in the Lindchester Chronicles is contemporary Christian fiction at its finest.
Tales from Lindford will make you laugh, cry and leave you with hope that grace can be found even in the darkest times.
KATIE FFORDE, THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR
'Catherine Fox writes with immense compassion, unsentimental faith and an impressively undisciplined humour.'
ROWAN WILLIAMS, FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
January 2020. Freddie, Father Dominic, Jane and all the other residents of Lindfordshire are celebrating the New Year with parties and resolutions. None of them is aware of the trials and tribulations the coming months will bring - not least the horseman of the apocalypse who has set out quietly, with barely a jingle of harness, in a distance province of China...
Return to Lindchester once more with Tales from Lindford, the fourth in the beloved series of novels from Catherine Fox. Valiantly written in real time in the midst of the pandemic, this entertaining book captures the difficulties of 2020 with heart, humour and insight. Perfect for Lindchester fans, it's also the ideal novel for anyone seeking comfort and a way of understanding all that has been happening.
A twenty-first century Barchester that fans of Barbara Pym and the BBC's Rev will love, this new volume in the Lindchester Chronicles is contemporary Christian fiction at its finest.
Tales from Lindford will make you laugh, cry and leave you with hope that grace can be found even in the darkest times.
Author
Catherine Fox is Academic Director of the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her debut novel, Angels and Men (reissued in 2014), was a Sunday Times Pick of the Year. It was followed by The Benefits of Passion and Love for the Lost (both reissued in 2015). The Lindchester Chronicles series began with Acts and Omissions, which was chosen as a Guardian Book of 2014, and now numbers four volumes – Unseen Things Above (2015), Realms of Glory (2017) and Tales from Lindford (2021) - each complete in itself. Catherine is married to the Bishop of Sheffield and is a judo black belt.
Reviews
Lyrical, compelling and full of insight. I found this very hard to put down.
I hope Catherine Fox will forgive me if I say she doesn't write like an angel; she writes like a human being, with immense compassion, unsentimental faith and an impressively undisciplined humour. Not many writers give such a vivid sense of what it is actually like to try and live in the light of absolute mercy. Very few indeed do it with such brilliance and freshness of language.
Bitter-sweet . . . but all the usual qualities of empathy, wit and unflaunted piety
True, kind, sharp and so beautifully written. Brings it all back, the dull ache of lockdown, but lightened by a shimmering veil of wit, compassion and just – precisely – the right words.
What makes Realms of Glory such a delight is the humour, humanity and the strong characters . . . that come off the page and hang around in your head . . . This is not safe Christian fiction, because we don't live in a safe Christian world.
What a treat it is to have some Fresh Expressions from the diocese of Lindchester. Catherine Fox’s second helping of bad language, sex and Evensong is Anglicanism at its best; her wit, compassion and rueful optimism are irresistible.
Catherine Fox's glorious Lindchester series is the twenty-first-century answer to Trollope's Barchester - but Trollope was never so funny, so fundamentally kind, or so mischievously attentive to grace.
Unsure what to buy the Trollope devotee in your life for Christmas? Look no further than Catherine Fox’s Acts and Omissions and Unseen Things Above for a refresher course not only in cathedral politics, but also a set of profound, although lightly drawn, insights into the contemporary Anglican communion.
These books are utterly unputdownable, gossipy, subtle and wise. What’s astonishing is that despite Catherine Fox’s sharp awareness of the feet of clay under surplices, she somehow makes you believe several cheering things that most modern fiction doesn’t: that the natural world is endlessly beautiful, that most people aspire to goodness even if they fall flat on their faces, and that the attempt to live a good life is worthwhile.
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KATIE FFORDE, THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR
'Catherine Fox writes with immense compassion, unsentimental faith and an impressively undisciplined humour.'
ROWAN WILLIAMS, FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
January 2020. Freddie, Father Dominic, Jane and all the other residents of Lindfordshire are celebrating the New Year with parties and resolutions. None of them is aware of the trials and tribulations the coming months will bring - not least the horseman of the apocalypse who has set out quietly, with barely a jingle of harness, in a distance province of China...
Return to Lindchester once more with Tales from Lindford, the fourth in the beloved series of novels from Catherine Fox. Valiantly written in real time in the midst of the pandemic, this entertaining book captures the difficulties of 2020 with heart, humour and insight. Perfect for Lindchester fans, it's also the ideal novel for anyone seeking comfort and a way of understanding all that has been happening.
A twenty-first century Barchester that fans of Barbara Pym and the BBC's Rev will love, this new volume in the Lindchester Chronicles is contemporary Christian fiction at its finest.
Tales from Lindford will make you laugh, cry and leave you with hope that grace can be found even in the darkest times.