Thanks to Fr Dwight Longenecker for a perceptive review of my novel in the Imaginative Conservative.

• “In the midst of endless introspection amongst Catholics about the problems in the contemporary church, and amidst numerous mis-diagnoses and shallow prescriptions for change, Lawler rightly assesses the core problem.”

(His critical remarks about the novel are also right on target. If I do a sequel, I’ll “show, not tell.”