The Friday Gospels

Utterly, compulsively readable, [it] could be this award-winning young author's best novel yet. The Sunday Times A serious, distinctive and eminently readable story of faith and family; about the demands of the world and the desires of the individual. Independent on Sunday Ashworth's most confident work yet and one that strengthens her reputation as an author worth watching. Sunday Telegraph A serious novel seriously engaged with big themes. It is also very funny. Andrew Miller, author of PURE It is rare to find a novel that is so complex, so damn clever and yet at once readable... a truly exceptional novel. Helen Walsh, author of BRASS Jenn Ashworth's The Friday Gospels will make a nicely unsettling poolside read. Brought up in a Mormon family, here she turns her fictional talents to the Church of Latter-day Saints, both its dark and its hilarious sides. -- Mary Beard, Summer Reads Observer Grim and comic in equal measures, this is an acutely observer account of growing up as a Latter-day Saint in Lancashire Observer Ashworth's darkly comic third novel concerns the unravelling of a close-knit Mormon family in Lancashire, and evolves into a sympathetic, forgiving and absorbing portrait of family life. Daily Telegraph