Michael Arditti
The Choice
The Choice
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"The Choice" is a novel by Michael Arditti that explores desire, sin, and redemption. It follows the story of Clarissa Phipps, who joins the BBC to interview artist Seward Wemlock and becomes involved in a scandal involving his relationship with a teenage model. The novel is a compelling read that handles lightly problems of great moral weight, and is praised for its intellectual richness, joyously acidic dialogue, and three-dimensional narrative.
Format: Hardback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 01 June 2023
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
A rich and powerful exploration of desire, sin, and redemption, by one of our finest 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 has given us a novel very much for our time, good enough to be for all time, too.
The Scotsman
An engrossing, three-dimensional, grown-up narrative.
ROWAN WILLIAMS
The perfect combination of matters ecclesiastical and artistic.
Financial Times
Bursting with intellectual richness and joyously acidic dialogue.
The Spectator
A compelling read.
Observer
I loved this book for its lightness of touch about serious subjects and for dialogue that glitters like clashing rapiers.
MIRANDA SEYMOUR
An intelligent and entertaining novel that handles lightly problems of great moral weight.
Guardian
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.
A serious and important writer.
ROSE TREMAIN
Arditti has delivered a complex moral fable with skill and aplomb.
Mail on Sunday
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 Clarissa is obliged to act.
Will she choose friendship or conscience, sympathy or her duty of care?
The fallout from that choice forces her to reflect on past concerns over Wemlock's relationship with his teenage models.
Had she heeded the whispers at the time, how many lives - her own included - would have?
Weight: 644g
Dimension: 165 x 243 x 36 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529425758
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