Tales from Lindfor: Lindchester Chronicles 4

’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.

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.