Christian Fiction
Glittering Images (Church of England)
1987·504 pages
A Cambridge clergyman investigates a bishop's ménage à trois, confronting his own spiritual and emotional crisis within the Church of England.
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A Cambridge clergyman investigates a bishop's ménage à trois, confronting his own spiritual and emotional crisis within the Church of England.
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Glittering Images is narrated by The Revd Canon Dr Charles Ashworth, a Cambridge academic who undergoes something of a spiritual and nervous breakdown after being sent by the Archbishop of Canterbury surreptitiously to investigate a menage a trois in the household of the Bishop of Starbridge. Ashworth is helped to recovery, and to realise the source of his problems by Fr Jonathan Darrow, the Abbot of the Granchester Abbey of the Fordite Monks.
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Central plot revolves around investigation of a ménage à trois and characters' romantic passions.
Violence & gore
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Ménage à trois relationship forms key element of the investigated household.
Religious content
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Extensive depictions of Church of England clergy, rituals, spirituality, and moral struggles.
Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Church hierarchy intrigues and conflicts over morality and loyalty recur.
Self-harm / suicide
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Protagonist suffers a spiritual and nervous breakdown.
Abuse & suffering
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Emotional turmoil and fallout from unconventional relationships depicted.
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