The World, the Flesh & the Bishop

A Mountjoy Novel

By: Elizabeth Aston

Narrated by: Dawn Murphy

Originally published as Divine Comedy by Elizabeth Pewsey.

Who needs love? Not Quinta, who's made a good life for herself, bringing up her difficult young daughter, absorbed in her work as a violin maker. And she certainly doesn't need anybody to tell her how to live her life: She has it all sorted out, down to the last dot and comma. If it isn't on a list, it doesn't exist. When her old friend Lydia appears, jilted and angry, Quinta's orderly life is shaken and her past begins to catch up with her. Then Titus, an expert on chaos theory, comes sneaking into her life and heart, even though everyone knows chaos and lists don't go together. Sins, secrets and scandals stalk the precincts of Eyot Cathedral and the ancient, twisting city streets of Eyot. As Quinta heads into a maelstrom of change, will she be able to tear up her lists and go wherever the future will take her?

An entrancing, heartwarming, and witty novel about the merry-go-round of love. Escape into another world and delight in the lives of the wild Mountjoys of Mountjoy Castle and a host of fascinating characters. This is the England of P.G. Wodehouse and Downton Abbey, where wickedness and scandal lurk beneath the superb self-confidence of the upper classes.

Best-seller Elizabeth Aston's six Mountjoy novels were originally written under the name Elizabeth Pewsey and published by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder Headline.

©1994 Elizabeth Pewsey (P)2014 Audible Inc.

A hidden gem

I am happy to have discovered this author and her various series. I was looking for calming books to fall asleep to, which is mainly how I listen to these. She is a wonderful writer who makes the setting of each novel as rich as any character. The leads are always female and delightfully diverse and complex, and human goodness always prevails. I also love all the historical detail. Sadly she has passed but I’d like to thank her for her contribution to my own seeking of the peaceful.