Samantha Harvey’s novel is set just before Lent begins when the village priest, Fr John Reve, is spending much of his time in the confessional, for souls must be shriven. Then, a body is seen, snagging on a tree in the river, and vanishes again.
18 April 2018, The Tablet
A soul in torment
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