Choices - Fiction
Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan
Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan
In a small Scottish parish, and English priest is stalked by the fear of scandal, class hatred and lost ideals. Over the spring and summer of 2003, Father David becomes friends with two young people, Mark and Lisa: by the year’s end his life is the focus of public hysteria. As he looks back on his life, Father David begins to reconsider the central events of it, and what may have happened to the political hopes of his generation.
This is the third novel by O’Hagan, who was previously shortlisted for the Booker prize, and a winner of the James Tait Black Memorial prize for fiction.
10 copies
