Love Lies Bleeding is both a lively examination of the problems currently facing the Anglican Church, and a breathless love story. Intertwining English history with episodes of contemporary Italy and Spain, the book is rich enough in incident and opinion that it may cause many readers to examine their own beliefs. Father Luke Howard is Second Master at Melchester College, a venerable West Country school with Anglo-Catholic sympathies. When he is overlooked for promotion he takes a years sabbatical with the prestigious task ...
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Love Lies Bleeding is both a lively examination of the problems currently facing the Anglican Church, and a breathless love story. Intertwining English history with episodes of contemporary Italy and Spain, the book is rich enough in incident and opinion that it may cause many readers to examine their own beliefs. Father Luke Howard is Second Master at Melchester College, a venerable West Country school with Anglo-Catholic sympathies. When he is overlooked for promotion he takes a years sabbatical with the prestigious task of translating the sixteenth century diary of an old boy of the school. In his absence the new regime takes over, threatening to bury the austere traditions under a tide of evangelical and commercially driven reforms. Retiring to the wilds of the Cornish coast, Luke falls in love with the unattainable Francesca Boscannon, and he struggles with faith, love and his conscience, seeking to reconcile his earthly desires with his spiritual goals in a story that mirrors the life of the diarist Fr de Witte.
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