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Tom Carey is a priest in crisis. God's good world has curdled and the Church is beset by scandal. Increasingly, he is haunted by the face of a woman he once secretly loved.

Abandoning his comfortable parish he buries himself in the post of Port Chaplain on a busy river, but soon finds himself caught up in the murky world of international people-smuggling. The alluring but sinister Captain Cargo and his beleaguered Filipino crew seem intent on forcing him into a radical expression of his priesthood, but a chance encounter with the woman he has not seen for thirty years throws his vocation and faith into question.

Tulloch masterfully fashions a foreboding gothic landscape out of this godforsaken colony of the damned... An immensely resonant and powerful story

Laurence Phelan, Independent on Sunday

About Jonathan Tulloch

Details
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • ISBN: 9780099422150
  • Length: 288 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 195g
  • Price: £7.99