A Dark Nativity

Pitcher, George

ISBN 10: 1783524340 / ISBN 13: 9781783524341

Published by Unbound, 2017

About this Item

Signed by Author on title page. Black cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. Light edge wear to jacket. Otherwise in fine condition throughout with pages free from marks or inscriptions. Please see images for further details and feel free to ask for further information.

Synopsis: The Rev?d Natalie Cross, a high-profile priest at St Paul?s Cathedral, is tipped to be one of the first female bishops in the Church of England. She could be happy. But she?s not. Natalie?s work among the desperately poor is intricately bound up with her wounded past. Her fierce humanity has already got her into trouble as a foreign aid worker among the refugees of Sudan and the Middle East. And when she is drawn into the world of peace-process politics, it seems it?s not her faith she needs so much as a brutal self-reliance born of damage done long ago.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Dark Nativity
• Publisher: Unbound
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783524340
• ISBN 13: 9781783524341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 3.05W x 15.88H x 24.13D centimeters 3.05 centimeters width by 15.88 centimeters height by 24.13 centimeters depth
• Weight: 590 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature & General Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

The Reverend Natalie Cross is no ordinary Anglican priest. With a high-profile job at St Paul’s Cathedral and tipped to become one of the first female bishops in the Church of England, she should be happy. But she’s not.

Natalie’s faith is intricately bound up with her wounded past, and her time as a foreign aid worker among the refugees of Sudan and the Middle East, where her fierce humanity has got her into trouble. When she is drawn into the world of peace-process politics, she loses her liberty and very nearly her life. What will save her? The love of God? Or the brutal self-reliance borne of damage done long ago?

In A Dark Nativity, George Pitcher traces one woman’s descent into the murky world of oppression and terror, where cynical intelligence manipulators operate outside the rule of international law. It is a story of what it is to be in fear of your life. To be a woman in a world full of men who would use and abuse you.

As Natalie discovers, the most dangerous people are not always the ones holding guns, and that sometimes even the darkest acts can lead you towards the light.

About the Author

George Pitcher is a journalist, former award-winning industrial editor of the Observer and columnist and leader-writer for the Daily Telegraph. He is also an Anglican priest, ordained at St Paul’s cathedral in 2005, and serves in the dioceses of London and Chichester. He is currently rector of a rural parish in East Sussex. A Dark Nativity is his first novel.