The Courage Consort by Michel Faber

Author:Michel Faber [Faber, Michel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

On her way out of the Mission, Siân paused at the bookcase offering books for fifty pence each and rummaged through the thrillers, romances, and anthologies of local writers' circles. There was a cheap, mass-produced New Testament there, too. What a comedown since the days when a Bible was a unique and priceless object, inscribed on vellum from an entire flock of sheep! Siân closed her eyes, imagined a cloister honeycombed in sunlight, with a long rank of desks and tonsured heads, perfect silence except for the faint scratching of pen nibs.

'Now here's a blast from the past!' brayed the disc jockey on the radio. 'Hands up anyone who bopped along to Culture Club when they had this hit—come on, 'fess up!'

Siân fled.

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