Acts and Omissions: (Lindchester Chronicles 1) (The Lindchester Chronicles) - Softcover

'I've relished Catherine Fox's Acts and Omissions ...' -Diarmaid MacCulloch in The Guardian Best Books of 2014; 'A delightful portrait of the follies and foibles in a contemporary Anglican diocese, written with wit, wisdom and impeccable liberal sympathies.'- Michael Arditti, author and critic;'Acts and Omissions is brave and beautiful, devastatingly honest, mercilessly funny, fundamentally kind.'- Dr Margaret Masson, Vice-Principal, St Chad's College, Durham;'Brims with wit and heart, acknowledging the awkwardness and consolations of Anglicanism in the twenty-first century. Hugely entertaining and highly recommended.'- Richard Beard, author of Lazarus is Dead

The Bishop of Lindchester is happily married with four daughters. But does he have a secret? Archdeacon Matt is inclined to think not. That said, it's obvious to him that Bishop Paul's got a pretty big bee in his mitre about the brilliant but troubled Freddie May ...Welcome to the fictional Diocese of Lindchester. Conceived as an affectionate homage to Trollope's Barchester Chronicles, Acts and Omissions takes you, dear reader, on a year-long romp in the company of bishops, priests and laypeople. Prepare yourself for a bumpy and hilarious ride from the rarefied heights of the Cathedral Close down to the coalface of ordinary urban and rural parishes. Acts and Omissions reveals the Church of England in all its mess and glory. It is a world shot through with grace, but one where even the best intentioned err and stray. And occasionally do those things which they ought not to have done ...