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The speaker's wife
Letts, Quentin2015
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The Rev Tom Ross's quiet and semi-alcoholic life as chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons is about to be shattered. Pastor Petroc Stone of a central London, evangelical church gives sanctuary to a young man being chased by the police for making an anti-Islamic protest. Politicians rage about the Church of England giving a safe haven to a dangerous criminal and Islamists surround the church building, furious at the boy's insult. Meanwhile, the charismatic, white-maned Don of Doubt, Augustus Dymock, and his secular campaign, the Thought Foundation, are pressuring the Church to sell hundreds of its under-used places of worship. As the stories twist and flow together, Ross finds himself caught up in a world of bribes, violence and political spin and, at high personal cost, he must confront his demons.
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The speaker's wife / by Quentin Letts.
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London : Constable, 2015.
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295 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781472122001 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR6112
Local class:
FTFIC
Language:
English
BRN:
726557
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