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An extraordinary memoir, written with great warmth, describing the author's choice as a young boy to leave his chaotic family life and join the Church, which will surely be a paperback bestseller. 'A complex story written with beautiful and brutal exactness ...An intensely involving, carefully paced book...A story about the loss of faith and its eventual return, it has the hold of good fiction and the grip of sober truth' "Guardian".
One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had
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An extraordinary memoir, written with great warmth, describing the author's choice as a young boy to leave his chaotic family life and join the Church, which will surely be a paperback bestseller. 'A complex story written with beautiful and brutal exactness ...An intensely involving, carefully paced book...A story about the loss of faith and its eventual return, it has the hold of good fiction and the grip of sober truth' "Guardian".
One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines.
Autorenporträt
John Cornwell is an award-winning journalist and author. `Hitler¿s Pope¿ was an international bestseller, and he won the non-fiction Gold Dagger Award for `Earth to Earth¿, the story of a West Country family tragedy. His story of the Louisville Prozac trial, `Power To Harm¿, received international acclaim, and his recent history, `Hitler¿s Scientists: Science, War and the Devil`s Pact¿, won the Science and Medical Network book of the year prize for 2005. Cornwell is a Fellow Commoner of Jesus College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.