More terrific reviews for Jessie Childs's God's Traitors
15 Apr 2014

In the quality of her research and sensitive handling of issues that remain raw to this day, Jessie Childs succeeds in evoking ‘the lived experience of anti-Catholicism’ as few have done before…Childs’s language is lively and inventive…By picturing Elizabethan recusants in all their complexity, Jessie Childs has enabled them to speak for themselves at last.
 John Cooper, Literary Review

Vivid but measured…never has the actual experience of the recusants been rendered with such a wealth of searing detail…richly packed, absorbing…It is a parade of extraordinary characters and a banquet of Elizabethan and Jacobean prose.
 Simon Callow, The Guardian (Book of the Week)

Splendid book…Childs does a splendid job of explaining this unenviable situation and of putting it in the wider context of Elizabethan Catholic life. There are many fruitful digressions. Jonathan Wright, The Tablet