![]() ![]() And his young wife is becoming conspicuously agitated. The atheist's temporary home is close to the site. Meanwhile, archaeologists, assisted by Merrily's teenage daughter, Jane, are at work in Coleman's Meadow, unearthing an ancient row of standing stones which some people would rather stay buried. Fundamentalist Christians have hated him for years. ![]() An aggressively-atheist author has been moved, for his own safety, Rushdie-style, into a secluded house just outside the village. ![]() The church is serving as a temporary mortuary for two people who drowned. The village has never been flooded in living memory. With the flood water washing up Church Lane towards the vicarage and the shop running out of cigarettes it looks like a cold and complex Christmas for Merrily Watkins in an ancient community forced to untangle its own history against the swirling uncertainty of the future.ĭecember in vicar and exorcist Merrily Watkins' village of Ledwardine, and the river is rising. ![]()
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