After No God

by Tom Miles

After No God tells the story of Charles Barratt, a gentleman, who retires to the small Surrey town of B_______ hoping to live out his days in calm obscurity. Instead, through the intervention of a stray wasp, Barratt has to contend with romantic feelings towards Mrs Walker, the cousin of the local rector, and must vie for supremacy over Henry Nicholson, the dissolute chair of the Old B_______ Charitable Trust. Can Mrs Walker forgive Barratt's atheism and impulsive nature? Is there any hope of redemption for Nicholson, and will Miss Lucy, Mrs Walker's winsome daughter, find love herself?These dramas play out in Tom Miles's new, richly comic novel, set in an England familiar to readers of Austen, Thackeray and George Eliot, and employing the diction of these masters of nineteenth century prose, occasionally infused with a twenty-first century sensibility. Despite its comedic instincts the book also engages with less trivial concerns, which retain a timeless or specifically contemporary relevance. Barratt is a non-believer in a world of almost universal belief, and must confront poverty, and corruption in public office, as well as overcoming the grief which has stunted his life.After No God is seriously entertaining.

206 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 23, 2021