Peter Stanford has been very nice about ‘Is God Still An Englishman?’ in The Observer. Here’s some of the review:
“The tension between believing and belonging provides the structure for Cole Moreton’s lyrical, almost elegiac taking of the nation’s spiritual temperature. I say almost elegiac because, having charted the decline of organised Christianity and the loss of the deference traditionally shown to the Church of England and the monarch as its head, Moreton then manages, in his final chapters, to find signs of resurrection.” Then later …
“He can make you laugh out loud, and generates a momentum that has you turning the pages wanting it never to end.”