David Jessop was born in Mansfield, England and studied Modern History at Queen Mary College, University of London. He also has a doctorate in History from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Most of his life was spent in Finance and Charity work in the UK and North America. The Vicar of Abchurch is his first novel.
At the end of his working life, a vicar in the City of London thinks of himself as a failure: no one now seems to treasure the beliefs and religious practices of his youth; the church hierarchy is seemingly obsessed only with modern marketing and business methods which he doesn’t appreciate; and a...
