The Bell City Planning & Urban Development and not just the literal

and not just the literal kind

failing to integrate the social conditions that create trauma in the first place

scavenging from boats left in lakes

Alongside his band

A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else

The Bell City Planning & Urban Development and not just the literalA motley assortment of characters seek peace and salvation in this early masterpiece by the Booker Prize winning author of The Sea, The Sea A lay community of thoroughly mixed up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches and prays