What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

By locals. The islanders have a faith, possibly Christian? The shipwrecked man has come from a society where there is no faith. Some of the islanders want the man killed as a heretic. The story then goes on tp prove disprove the existence of God, by experimenting with a child, who is brought up with no belief system.

I haven't read it so it's a big guess, but perhaps Island by Aldous Huxley?


My boyfriend read it recently and it sounded similar. Island

It's called Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh

The description of Knowledge of Angels:

"It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquility of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by the appearance of two outsiders: one, a castaway, plucked from the sea by fishermen, whose beliefs represent a challenge to the established order; the other, a child abandoned by her mother and suckled by wolves, who knows nothing of the precarious relationship between Church and State but whose innocence will become the subject of a dangerous experiment.

But the arrival of the Inquisition on the island creates a darker, more threatening force which will transform what has been a philosophical game of chess into a matter of life and death..."

Lyn, are you still looking for this or was it something mentioned above?