A Whispered Name by William Brodrick
'To keep quiet about something so important ...well, it's almost a lie, wouldn't you say?' When Father Anselm meets Kate Seymour in the cemetery at Larkwood, he is dismayed to hear her allegation. Herbert Moore had been one of the founding fathers of the Priory, revered by all who met him, a man who'd shaped Anselm's own vocation. The idea that someone could look on his grave and speak of a lie is inconceivable. But Anselm soon learns that Herbert did indeed have secrets in his past that he kept hidden all his life. In 1917, during the terrible slaughter of the Passchendaele campaign, a soldier faced a court martial for desertion. Herbert, charged with a responsibility that would change the course of his life, sat upon the panel that judged him. In coming to understand the court martial, Anselm discovers its true significance: a secret victory that transformed the young Captain Moore and shone a light upon the horror of war.
'Worthy of le Carre at his best' Allan Massie, The Scotsman *** 'A tense, sophisticated, wholly convincing novel of suspenseThis is a remarkable debut' Michael Holroyd *** 'Wonderful. The engrossing essence of this novel is the morality of the individual. And - rare for a first novel - the questions we are left with are ones that are basic to human existene' Gitta Sereny, The Times
Bill Brodrick was a Franciscan friar before leaving the order to become a practising barrister.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316731546 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316731544 |
| Title | A Whispered Name |
| Author | William Brodrick |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown & Company |
| Year published | 2008-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Winner of CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction 2009 |
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