Fludd

The story is set in a fictional village called Featherington which is a cotton town in the north of England and the action takes place around 1956. It is a work which looks at religion and religious mysticism and one which asks some searching questions about the Catholic Church of the time.

This book just didn't do it for me. There is a good set of characters, each of whom has a very distinct personality (except for Philomena, who didn't seem to have a personality at all); I particularly liked Agnes Dempsey, who I couldn't help but picture as Mrs Doyle from Father Ted.

Not sure about this. Parts of it were great, very entertaining, but overall it was just too weird.