The Spectator, May 12th, 2007
SUNDAY AT THE CROSS BONES by John Walsh Fourth Estate, £12.99, pp. 470, ISBN 9780007139322 . £10.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655
John Walsh's new novel is a paradoxically enjoyable account of the decline and fall of an Exeter College student of theology who becomes for a short time a performer in vaudeville and then an evangelist of Longford innocence and charity who believes he can perceive potential good in even the most depraved young women.
Walsh frames this moral tale in the few known facts of the real life of the Reverend Harold Davidson (1875-1937), for a quarter of a century...
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