Book description
A group of young people are searching for meaning in a dark and
directionless world. The Course, a religious movement led by a
charismatic priest, seems at first to offer everything the friends
have been looking for: a community of bright, thoughtful, beautiful
people. But as they are drawn deeper into the Course, money, sex and
God collide, threatening to rip them apart. This gripping novel of
ideas lays bare a world where the advancement of a movement becomes
more important than the lives of its followers.
Alex Preston was born in 1979. He lives in London with his wife
and two children. His first novel, This Bleeding City, won the Spear's
and Edinburgh Festival first book prizes, was selected as one of
Waterstone'sNew Voices 2010 and has been translated into twelve
languages. Alex is a regular panelist on the BBC Review Show and
writes a fortnightly column in the New Statesman, as well as
journalism for GQ, The Observer, The Independent and The Telegraph. He
studied English under Tom Paulin at Hertford College, Oxford
