In Children of Darkness and Light, Mosley takes on what for most novelists has been the most challenging of subjects a novel directly concerned with religious belief. A middleaged, burntout journalist is sent to the north of England to do a story about the possible appearance of the Blessed Virgin to a group of children, though this may be a rumor initiated by the government to cover up a nuclear disaster. Or both. Out of such conflicting possibilities, Mosley invents a sinister world where nothing is what it seems to be. And as Mosleys narrator moves through the possibilities of halftruths, lies, conspiracies, and betrayals, he himself creates a parallel crisis in his personal life wherein he and his wife are trying to destroy their marriage or save it, or as we come to expect in Mosley novels do both at once. And behind all this is the possibility that the narrator half philosopher and half wouldbe saint is little more than a middleaged man trying to justify his irresponsibility and infidelity behind a shield of wit and irony.

Binding: Paperback;248 pages; Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing; Classification: FA; Weight: 505 g; Dimensions: 229 x 153 x 20

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