What reviewers say: ...the resonance and relevance of the book is (sadly) almost universal. This is potentially of interest to anyone concerned with how we grow up, how we are shaped, and how the way that young people are drawn into whatever religious faith into which they are born, how this supposedly, avowedly benign process is enacted can have deeply malign effects on the individual and so on society in general. It tackles - head-on - an important and pressing subject... it's vital stuff. It's about how we safeguard young people, how we grow up, how we interact with others. Karl French, Literary Reviewer Awesome how far Augustine's tentacles of sinfulness reach. Alone among the world's civilised nations, Britons are allowed to physically punish children because unelected bishops sitting in the House of Lords advocate it. Carolyn Thompson, reader It takes us directly to a seemingly real situation with flesh and blood people. The menace in the good father's every action is tangible, and what isn't said adds to the sense of danger. Alan Wilkinson, Literary Reviewer