2020 and sadly the Tales from Lindford came to an end, but the pandemic did not, and neither did the lives of our valiant Lindchester community. Return to Lindchester once more with The Company of Heaven, the fifth in the beloved series of novels from Catherine Fox.

Valiantly written in real time in the midst of the pandemic, this entertaining book captures the difficulties of 2021 with heart, humour and insight. Perfect for Lindchester fans, it's also the ideal novel for anyone seeking comfort and a way of understanding all that has happened.

In The Company of Heaven, we re-join our Lindchester friends on Easter Monday 2021, just as the third lockdown in our Covid winter of discontent draws to a close. The new paschal candles have been lit. The endless snowy ghastliness of January, February, and March are behind us now.

Shake out your wings and fly once more across the Diocese of Lindfordshire, as we launch out on Pandemic, Part II. We will catch up with old friends and make new ones. Skeletons will tumble from cupboards, and not everyone will behave themselves as well as they ought (this is Lindchester after all).

A twenty-first century Barchester that fans of Barbara Pym and the BBC's Rev will love, this new volume in the Lindchester Chronicles is contemporary Christian fiction at its finest. Sharp-eyed, witty and compassionate, Catherine Fox once again helps us make sense of real-life events and challenges, while weaving through a series of heart-stopping storylines. The Company of Heaven will make you laugh, cry and leave you with hope that grace can be found even in the darkest times.

Catherine has a vocation for fiction that is both hugely entertaining and deeply pastoral Set in an imaginary English diocese, the book chronicles the lives of fictional clergy and laity with clear-eyed wit and love She has proven herself to be a popular and prescient novelist, with a gift for enlarging our capacity for joy/coping in the midst of uncertainly and seeming disaster The blogged version of Tales from Lindford had 100,000 visits, with very positive feedback and people urging Catherine to carry on into 2021

Title: The Company of Heaven
Series: Lindchester Chronicles 5
Author: Catherine Fox
ISBN: 9781910674673
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Date: 18th May 2023