The Vicar of Sorrows A Novel [Paperback]

When his mother dies, Francis is shocked to discover that she had a lover and that he must share his inheritance with this (awful) man. Then Francis falls in lovepainfully, absolutelywith an irresistible but most unsuitable young woman.A marvelously conceived novel that takes on everything from the Church of England to modern marriage in its sendup of contemporary mores.Quite superb. . . . Wilson's eye on the minefields of English social and clerical life is devastatingly accurate.Terrifically funny and at the same time terrifically sad. . . . Mr. Wilson is a brilliantly mordant observer of human types, of which this book offers a merciless catalogue.A journey far more unsettling and moving that any offered in his previous work.Entertaining, perceptive, and affecting. . . . His best novel yet.In this powerful novel that will confirm his reputation as one of Britain's brightest literary lights, A. N. Wilson recounts the downward spiral of Francis Kreer, a clergyman who does not believe in God and whose life starts to come apart at the seams.