Watch the amazing Locus juggle several books at once, and try not to drop any! Free admission.
Another vicar + widow union, haha! Although David is no Julian, really.
That's what strikes me most about the book so far; it's like a dystopia for the main characters, since every single social tradition so far has gone out the window. The ladies in the village not wanting to go to church? Oh my! And it's a detail that was already in motion during Excellent Women, with the dropping churchgoing rates; here we see the logical conclusion.