A woman in this novel writes a letter declaring, “I wish I weren’t as strong as a horse,” and observing, “I’ve caught belief like a disease. I’ve fallen into belief like love.” In this novel, a woman’s diary entries compare married life to a “desert” and describe a dream of ascending a flooded staircase. Paralleling a scene in a film that he wrote, a man in this novel falls in love with a woman when she eats some (*) onions, even though her husband hates their smell. This novel’s narrator calls it “a record of hate far more than of love.” After a woman in this novel dies from pneumonia, the liver-spots on the cheek of the (10[1])militant atheist Smythe (“smith”) are healed. This novel’s title event occurs when a woman makes a desperate deal with God after her lover (10[1])is nearly killed by a V-1 rocket during the Blitz. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this novel (10[2])about the relationship between (10[1])Sarah Miles (-5[1])and Maurice Bendrix, (10[1])the last “Catholic novel” by Graham Greene. ■END■ (10[1])