Michael Arditti is a novelist, short story writer and critic. His novels are The Celibate (1993), Pagan and her Parents (Pagan's Father in the USA) (1996), Easter (2000), Unity (2005), A Sea Change (2006), The Enemy of the Good (2009), Jubilate (2011), The Breath of Night (2013), Widows and Orphans (2016), Of Men and Angels (2018) and The Anointed (2020). His short story collection, Good Clean Fun, was published in 2004. He was awarded a Harold Hyam Wingate scholarship in 2000, a Royal Literary Fund fellowship in 2001, an Oppenheim-John Downes memorial award in 2003 and Arts Council awards in 2004 and 2007. He was the Leverhulme artist in residence at the Freud museum in 2008. His novels have been short- and long-listed for several literary awards and Easter won the inaugural Waterstone's Mardi Gras award. In 2012 he was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Chester.
I enjoyed it enormously. The story is so interesting, the theme so
important and pertinent, and the fluency and lightness of touch so
engaging to read.
*PHILIP PULLMAN*
Past sins, present values, forgiveness and redemption all inform
this subtle modern morality tale . . . A compelling read.
*Observer*
An absorbing novel, a mature and important work . . . [Arditti] has
given us a novel very much for our time, good enough to be for all
time, too
*The Scotsman*
The Choice is an intelligent and entertaining novel that handles
lightly problems of great moral weight. Clarissa faces many hard
choices and unearths many horrors, but in the end, for her and for
the reader, it is all worth it.
*Guardian*
A book that probes any number of aggressive varieties of moralism,
while testing the reader's own moral alertness for rigour, realism
and generosity. An engrossing, three-dimensional, grown-up
narrative.
*ROWAN WILLIAMS*
In a novel bursting with intellectual richness and joyously acidic
dialogue, it's fitting he ends on a deliciously poised note - a
question rather than an answer
*The Spectator*
A serious and important writer
*ROSE TREMAIN*
Michael Arditti's magnificent novel is the first to place a woman
priest at the centre of what proves to be an irresistibly readable,
thoughtful and characteristically witty examination of the
quandaries and compromises faced by the Church of England in an era
of decline . . . I loved this book for its lightness of touch about
serious subjects and for dialogue that glitters like clashing
rapiers.
*MIRANDA SEYMOUR*
Arditti has delivered a complex moral fable with skill and
aplomb
*Mail on Sunday*
At a time when British fiction has never been more timorous about
tackling novels of ideas, Michael Arditti has produced one worthy
of Iris Murdoch and Graham Greene . . . Brilliantly ambiguous,
waspishly witty and thoroughly enjoyable, this is Michael Arditti's
own masterpiece to date.
*AMANDA CRAIG*
Arditti's fondness for comic flourishes adds levity to what is not
infrequently a discomforting exploration of art, religion and
morality - one that, with the fate of artist Eric Gill's oeuvre
back In the headlines, feels very current
*Daily Mail*
Challenging, mischievous and enormously satisfying.
*Daily Express*
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