Sexist Ecclesiasticals

Jan 2023
Midwinter of the Spirit – Phil Rickman – Corvus, 2011
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This is the second volume in the sequence starring Merrily Watkins, a Church of England vicar with a talent for the uncanny. I didn’t enjoy it as much as the first – the plot, which involves possible satanic worship, took a while to get going, and keeping Merrily and her potential love interest Lol on parallel tracks for so long was perhaps not the wisest decision – but the cathedral town setting is well done and the depiction of the ecclesiastical sexism that Merrily has to deal with is, I suspect, still somewhat true to life.