I don’t expect this review to send you all out galloping for a copy of this book–The St. Zita Society, by the late Ruth Rendell. But like I always say, contemporary fiction often has a lot to teach us about our own time and culture.
https://leeduigon.com/2015/08/03/the-lost-souls-of-london/
True, Rendell spent her long career writing about weirdos. I think we have more weirdos now than when she started.
Which is something to think about.
Ruth Rendell today may have been shocked to see just how much of our reality had invaded her (and others) fiction. Disturbing.