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A review by rkw25
The Road to Grantchester by James Runcie
4.0
I picked this up in the Heathrow airport to read on the long journey home and was not disappointed. I have enjoyed watching the Grantchester mystery series and this prequel on Sidney's earlier life--references to college, service in World War II, adjusting or not to peacetime England, finding faith, and becoming a priest in the Church of England--helped make sense of some things in the series. Sidney's best friend Robert's sister, Amanda, is a thread throughout the book as she will be later in the series.
Runcie has a sense of story and did his research as well to make the book feel authentic to war, peace, and the church. Only anachronism that I found was his mention of the hymn "Tell out my soul, the greatness of the Lord" which wasn't published in hymnals until the early 1960s.
Runcie has a sense of story and did his research as well to make the book feel authentic to war, peace, and the church. Only anachronism that I found was his mention of the hymn "Tell out my soul, the greatness of the Lord" which wasn't published in hymnals until the early 1960s.