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Midwinter of the Spirit (Merrily Watkins, #2)

Phil Rickman

Start date: May 15, 2024

Finish date: June 7, 2024

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Why we're reading this: By popular request, a buddy read of the second in this successful series.
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Nov 15, 2018 Susan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is the second in the Merrily Watkins series, which sees her training for the post of Diocesan Exorcist in the Church of England, or ‘Deliverance Consultant,” as the Bishop (‘Call me Mick’) prefers to name it. The previous holder of the post, Cannon Dobbs, seems to resent the post of a female Exorcist and Merrily also has to battle her own concerns and problems. Especially after she is called to the bedside of a dying man, after the nurses claim they are afraid of him…

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Apr 17, 2024 Jill rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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This was another compelling read for me from this author. The start tells of Merrily Watkins on a training session to be a candidate for the position of a new Deliverance Consultant (the new name for Diocesan Exorcist). She does have doubts at first, but then when it is decided that she is successful, she hope it isn't just that she is a female priest, which are relatively new. She is then thrown into the deep end by being called to a man who is dying in hospital, who the nurses there are afraid ...more

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Nov 10, 2013 Damaskcat rated it it was amazing

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This is the second book in the Merrily Watkins series and has recently - 2015 - been dramatized for ITV. I think it has to be one of my favourite books in this series with its spectacular finale.

Merrily is appointed diocesan exorcist - or deliverance consultant as the Bishop prefers to call her. She has mixed feelings about the role and doesn't know whether she is capable of carrying it out.

As well as problems of deliverance, Merrily's teenage daughter, Jane, has a new friend, Rowenna, who seem ...more

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