Author(s): John Clanchy

Fiction

Although set a hundred years ago, this novel powerfully captures the devastating and persistent reality of a fundamental flaw in the role of our major institutions. Central to this novel is James Pearse, an essentially good but circumstantially weak man, who is forced to examine his role at the St Barnabas Home for Children, an orphanage that has betrayed the individuals entrusted to its care. He must face the devastating wider consequences of a life of moral equivocation.