Bloomsbury
Publication date: 8 July 2014
I stayed up all night with Robert Hellenga’s beguiling
schoolteacher-murderer and her talkative God, and will now re-read at leisure
to savor this author’s usual grace notes: music, recipes, learning, philosophy,
and travel. The Confessions of
Frances Godwin is Hellenga’s most audacious fling at just about everything
in our culture.
—
Gail Godwin, author of Flora
Robert Hellenga is a great storyteller and a most elegant
writer. The Confessions of Frances Godwin is a page-turner that made me want to
linger on the page.
—
Hilma Wolitzer, author of An Available
Man
As enjoyable as it is profound, The Confessions of Francis
Godwin, tackles our most unanswerable questions as only a novel can - not by
answering them but by exploring the reasons why we ask in the first place. What did I know for sure? Francis asks
herself after a long life. What insights
could I count on? This is the sort of rare book where the familiar starts
to look brand new, and a reader comes to understand that faith is as much about
how one sees as it is about what one believes.
—
Peter Orner, author The Last Car Over
Sagamore Bridge
The Confessions of Frances Godwin” is a journey towards the
spiritual by way of the sensual: good food, music, poetry, and one amazing
sports car. It’s a wonderful ride, with some unexpected and lovely detours.”
—
Jean Thompson, author of The Humanity
Project