The Choice (Hardback)

I enjoyed it enormously. The story is so interesting, the theme so important and pertinent, and the fluency and lightness of touch so engaging to read. - PHILIP PULLMAN

Past sins, present values, forgiveness and redemption all inform this subtle modern morality tale . . . A compelling read. - Peter Stanford, Observer

An absorbing novel, a mature and important work . . . [Arditti] has given us a novel very much for our time, good enough to be for all time, too - Allan Massie, The Scotsman

The Choice is an intelligent and entertaining novel that handles lightly problems of great moral weight. Clarissa faces many hard choices and unearths many horrors, but in the end, for her and for the reader, it is all worth it. - Christopher Shrimpton, Guardian

A book that probes any number of aggressive varieties of moralism, while testing the reader's own moral alertness for rigour, realism and generosity. An engrossing, three-dimensional, grown-up narrative. - ROWAN WILLIAMS

In a novel bursting with intellectual richness and joyously acidic dialogue, it's fitting he ends on a deliciously poised note - a question rather than an answer - Jude Crook, The Spectator

A serious and important writer - ROSE TREMAIN

Michael Arditti's magnificent novel is the first to place a woman priest at the centre of what proves to be an irresistibly readable, thoughtful and characteristically witty examination of the quandaries and compromises faced by the Church of England in an era of decline . . . I loved this book for its lightness of touch about serious subjects and for dialogue that glitters like clashing rapiers. - MIRANDA SEYMOUR

Arditti has delivered a complex moral fable with skill and aplomb - Max Davidson, Mail on Sunday

At a time when British fiction has never been more timorous about tackling novels of ideas, Michael Arditti has produced one worthy of Iris Murdoch and Graham Greene . . . Brilliantly ambiguous, waspishly witty and thoroughly enjoyable, this is Michael Arditti's own masterpiece to date. - AMANDA CRAIG

Arditti's fondness for comic flourishes adds levity to what is not infrequently a discomforting exploration of art, religion and morality - one that, with the fate of artist Eric Gill's oeuvre back In the headlines, feels very current - Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail

Challenging, mischievous and enormously satisfying. - Neil Norman, Daily Express