(Not yet read it.) I can sort of see Nicola thinking God might be nearer than she'd ever thought - in the right moment, totally unsentimental - because Nicola has got this introspective, interested streak in religion, and I can see her, in a moment, being moved and _thinking_ it - consciously. But not conventionally, not romantically, and certainly not as something that would be natural to think.

Whereas Lawrie's main belief, as I recall, is in the power of Them.