Madeleine
By Euan Cameron
Maclehose, 330pp, £17/$22
Euan Cameron was my first publisher and editor more than 40 years ago and has been one of my best friends since then. Now, after a long career, he has written his first novel. I should say I read it first in manuscript form and am indeed quoted on the cover, calling it “a beautifully written and moving story of love and betrayal that casts light on the ‘Dark Years’ of French history.”
Some may think this should disqualify me from reviewing it. However, clearly it is a work of particular interest to readers of the Catholic Herald, dealing as it does with questions of faith, and with sin, repentance and the possibility of redemption.
