The Honourable Member for Pepynbridge - Softcover

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Peter Morrell was born just before D Day. After school and university, where he read French, he qualified, first as a solicitor, and then as a barrister. He practised at the Bar until 1992, when he was appointed a circuit judge, trying criminal and civil cases in London and the East Midlands. Peter retired from the Circuit Bench in 2009, but continued to preside over Mental Health Tribunals until 2014. Peter has been an observant Christian since childhood and, in 2008, was ordained a deacon of the Church of England; and a priest a year later. He currently ministers in country parishes near his home where he has lived for over forty years. Peter is the author of two novels published in 2015; The Rector of Pepynbridge and The Islamist of Pepynbridge. Set in Pepynbridge, a fictional village in Northamptonshire, both deal with challenging and contemporary social issues and draw upon Peter's professional experiences as barrister, judge and clergyman; and his knowledge of rural life. The Honourable Member for Pepynbridge is the third novel in the Pepynbridge series. Set in the same village, it features the debate in the Church of England and the wider community about homosexuality and whether same-sex marriages may be conducted in church. Peter has been married to Mary for 46 years, with two grown-up daughters and a granddaughter.