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All God’s Kids
Three couples find their lives entwined as they each face social and sexual dilemma.
Bridget Rawnsley has spent twenty years building a life she is proud of. In the space of a single night, someone takes it apart, and what grows out of the wreckage is the child she had almost stopped hoping for.
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Three reasons to read it
A story that refuses to make its people simple
Nobody in this novel is only one thing, and the book declines to tell you who to condemn.
Procedure written by somebody who was there
The arrest, the interview room, the crown court. The detail comes from a career, not from research.
A page-turner built on private questions
Whose child is this? What is owed to a marriage? When is a lie the kinder act?
Themes
What you are buying into
Consent
What a person did or did not agree to
Fatherhood
Who a child actually belongs to
Marriage
The bargains couples make in private
Faith
A conscience with rules attached
Every baby who is born, no matter how he, or she, is conceived, and however they arrive, they are all children of God.
Readers
Is this your kind of novel?
An honest answer is better for everybody than a sale you regret.
Readers of contemporary British drama
If you read novels that stay at kitchen-table level: money, marriages, work, the neighbours. This is that book with the volume turned up.
Readers who want the law in their fiction
The investigation and the courtroom are given room to breathe, written from inside the job by a former police officer.
Readers who prefer complication to instruction
The novel puts consent, faith, fidelity and fatherhood in one room and lets them argue. It does not hand down a verdict on its people.
Readers who are not easily shocked
It is frank about sex and unflinching about sexual violence. It was written for adults and makes no apology for that.
All God’s Kids · Joe Hartwell
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Three couples on the same half-mile of road, one year that goes badly wrong for all of them, and a christening none of them saw coming.