Trevor Beeson’s Around the Church in Fifty Years (SCM Press, 2007, mentioned above) gives a lively overview of the main trends in the Church from the 1950s to the 1990s. We know that in 1950 James, as a man searching for a God who had seemingly abandoned him, was reading Paul Tillich’s sermons (The Shaking of the Foundations, Scribner, 1948); I like to think that he also read John A. T. Robinson’s Honest to God (SCM Press, 1963) during the 1960s, and that perhaps, after he found his Maker again, Yes to God by Alan Ecclestone (Darton, Longman and Todd, 1975) later in the 1970s. But that lies in his happy future, beyond the end of Think of Me.

—Frances Liardet, May 2021

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Frances Liardet is a child of children of the Second World War. She has an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia and studied Arabic at Oxford, before traveling to Cairo to translate modern Egyptian novelists, including Naguib Mahfouz and Edwar al-Kharrat. Liardet currently lives in Somerset, England, with her husband and daughter, and helps to run a summer writing session called Bootcamp. We Must Be Brave was her American debut.

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