The Resurrection of the Body - Softcover

Maggie Hamand is a journalist, non-fiction author and novelist. She is the author of two novels and her short stories have been shortlisted for major prizes and published in newspapers and magazines. She teaches creative writing at The Groucho Club and at Morley College. In 2000-01 she was Writer in Residence at Holloway Prison, London, and in 2004-07 a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at London University of the Arts.

Starred Review. A traditional whodunit turns into an unsettling journey of murder, obsession and a crisis of faith in the skillful hands of British author Hamand (The Rocket Man). In the middle of vicar Richard Page's Good Friday service, a man, bleeding from a knife wound to the chest, staggers into Page's church in the poor London neighborhood of Hackney. As his parishioners rush to the man's aid, Richard to his shame feels paralyzed, unable to act when faced with real wounds after contemplating Christ's suffering on the cross. The victim dies soon after in the hospital. While putting the finishing touches on his Easter Sunday sermon, Richard learns from the police that the body has disappeared from the morgue. When a parishioner reports seeing the supposed dead man working as a gardener, Richard begins his own investigation. As he delves deeper, fantasy and reality become blurred, and he questions even his own sanity. A compelling story builds to a chilling conclusion. (Nov.)
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