Judgment Day

This "beautiful and brilliant novel" (Auberon Waugh) by a Booker Prize winner follows an agnostic woman's relationship with a religious village's people and its past.

Judgment Daytakes us into the life of CLare Paling, who has just moved with her family to Laddenham, a sleepy village enlivened only by sideshows of adultery and gossip. An avowed agnostic, Clare is nonetheless caught up in the restoration of the church, even inciting the villagers to put on a pageant that recreates the church'...