- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (30 Jan 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 014024543X
- ISBN-13: 978-0140245431
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 153,341 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A novel about the lives and loves of students in a theological college. Mara is an angry and intelligent young woman who undertakes a theology degree to explore her unresolved relationship with her vicar father and deceased sister, who dies mysteriously in an extreme religious community.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The novel opens with a stirring description of "The City", as Fox calls it, a visionary city that is nonetheless i assure you very real. The protagonist, Mara, is a compellingly twisted & darkly charismatic postgrad at a Christian college. The novel follows her unexpected and very plausibly, convincingly, complex romantic entanglements at university, as she is tempted from her fierce solitude and amusing misanthropy.
i was impressed by Fox's technical prowess - the novel is finely structured and paced, a feat not to be sniffed at. But i was most moved by her open-endedness, her ability to treat of very emotive matters (religion, love, sexuality) without cheap solutions. A powerful novel, vision strongly anchored in passion.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a wonderful book not least because of the vividly awkward and ascerbic heroine (not since Jane Austen's Emma have I have I had to work so hard to like the protagonist of a novel, although Mara proves to be well worth the effort) but also because of its recurring themes of faith - both lost and found - and the complex nature of all human relationships. Not to mention the lengths to which these relationships drive us.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is truly THE best book that I've ever and will ever come across. It doesn't hold you on the edge, nevertheless it will be impossible not to be emotionally attached to the character(s) in the story. Angels and Men is elegantly simple, delivered with rare and daring originality. It will not be your usual books with a hero to save the day.Mara Johns was not your typical hermit, but one with a mysterious and captivating emotional baggage. Set against a backdrop of a traditionalist academic institution and a handful of captivating yet realistic characters, Angels and Men will discover for you the trove of sentiments you have always been looking for.
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Gold star!
I really love this. Catherine Fox has a great way of writing. This is an absorbing story about Mara facing life following her loss of faith after an unbearable family death. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Charles Carter
Boring!
Although very well written in some ways, I really found this book boring!
I was a student at Durham for 6 years in total, and was there when the river froze (as in the... Read more
I was a student at Durham for 6 years in total, and was there when the river froze (as in the... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Stuart M. Wilson
One of the most fantastic books
I haven't read Angels and Men for a few years now but it has to be one of my favourite books of all time. Read more
Published 22 months ago by locket
Underrated in the face of five-star reviews
This is possibly my favourite book. It is not easy to underpin the elements that make this an incredible novel because they are too extensive; I just simply can't fault it. Read more
Published on 13 May 2010 by Natalie
One of my favourite novels
This is just such a good book. Catherine Fox seems to have given up writing novels now which is such a shame - she's good at it! Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2009 by trolleydolley
Unputdownable
Catherine Fox has created a great story with fascinating characters and unusual themes, but the icing on the cake is surely her hero to-die-for, the gorgeous Johnny Whitaker. Read more
Published on 13 May 2009 by CA Smith
Moving and unexpected
I was initially drawn to this book because I spent some time at a college in Durham, where the book is set. Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2007 by Mr. D. Holder-twomlow
compelling and addictive
I have reread this and Fox's other two novels multiple times, and am desperate for a fourth. She left Isobel (not to mention this reader! Read more
Published on 22 July 2007 by CLM
One of the best books I've ever read.
The book had me transfixed from about the third page; the characters are so true-to-life that you feel involved in their lives and actually care what happens to them. Read more
Published on 7 Jun 2004
A beautiful novel.
This is one of my favourite books in the universe. It rates alongside Jane Eyre as a thoroughly gripping, intense and moving novel. Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2003 by C. L. Bunt
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