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Leaving Alexandria
- Author
- Richard Holloway
- Narrator
- Richard Holloway
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 17 May 2012
- Run Time
- 12 hours 6 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The acclaimed writer, respected thinker and outspoken former bishop Richard Holloway recounts a life defined by the biggest questions: Who am I? And what is God?
At fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home in the Vale of Leven, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood by a religious order in an English monastery. By twenty-five he had been ordained and was working in the slums of Glasgow. Throughout the following forty years, Richard touched the lives of many people in the Church and in the wider community. But behind his confident public face lay a restless, unquiet heart and a constantly searching mind.
In his long-awaited memoir, Richard seeks to explain how, after many crises of faith, he finally and painfully left the Church. It is a wise, poetic and fiercely honest book.
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Details
- Author
- Richard Holloway
- Narrator
- Richard Holloway
- Duration
- 12 hours 6 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 May 2012
- ISBN
- 9780857868336
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Memoirs, Religion: general, Religious life and practice
Synopsis
Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2013.The acclaimed writer, respected thinker and outspoken former bishop Richard Holloway recounts a life defined by the biggest questions: Who am I? And what is God?At fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home in the Vale of Leven, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood by a religious order in an English monastery. By twenty-five he had been ordained and was working in the slums of Glasgow. Throughout the following forty years, Richard touched the lives of many people in the Church and in the wider community. But behind his confident public face lay a restless, unquiet heart and a constantly searching mind.In his long-awaited memoir, Richard seeks to explain how, after many crises of faith, he finally and painfully left the Church. It is a wise, poetic and fiercely honest book.
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