Ros Barber’s first, prizewinning novel was written in verse, and its subject was that old that the death of Christopher Marlowe was faked and he survived to write the works of Shakespeare. Against the odds, The Marlowe Papers was a triumph, the demanding poetic form brilliantly suited to theme and era.
Devotion couldn’t be more different. For a start, it is set slightly in the future: Richard Dawkins is 10 years dead and his hostility to religious thought is the new dogma. Fanatical faith is close to being diagnosed as a form of mental illness. The protagonist, Finlay Logan, is a criminal psychologist brought in on a mass murder case: an unrepentant teenage girl has killed her college classmates, members of an atheist society, citing her Christianity as cause and mitigation.
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