Children of darkness and light
By: Nicholas Mosley.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Normal, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Apparitions and miracles -- Fiction.; Belief and doubt -- Fiction.; Journalists -- Fiction.; Faith -- Fiction.; England, Northern -- Fiction.
Description: "In Children of Darkness and Light, Mosley takes on what for most novelists has been the most challenging of subjects: a novel directly concerned with religious belief." "A middle-aged, burnt-out journalist is sent to the north of England to do a story about the possible appearance of the Blessed Virgin to a group of children, though this may be a rumor initiated by the government to cover up a nuclear disaster. Or both.".

"Out of such conflicting possibilities, Mosley invents a sinister world where nothing is what it seems to be. And as Mosley's narrator moves through the possibilities of half-truths, lies, conspiracies, and betrayals, he himself creates a parallel crisis in his personal life wherein he and his wife are trying to destroy their marriage or save it, or - as we come to expect in Mosley novels - do both at once.

And behind all this is the possibility that the narrator - half philosopher and half would-be saint - is little more than a middle-aged man trying to justify his irresponsibility and infidelity behind a shield of wit and irony."--BOOK JACKET.