Everything I feared it might be

CROSS ROADS
What if you could go back and put things
right?
By Wm. Paul Young
Hodder & Stoughton. 304 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978 1 444 745 993

It’s 18 million copies and six years since The Shack burst onto the Christian scene. There’s little doubt it has been an influential book and it’s perhaps surprising it’s taken this long for a second novel to come from William Young’s pen.

Loved and loathed in equal measure, it seemed to divide Christianity at its broadest level, though most evangelicals were agreed it contained some alarming teaching. Given the success of the first volume, expect to see Cross Roads in bookstores (both Christian and secular) and topping internet lists — it’s already climbing the Amazon rankings.