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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published: Apr 2008
Genre: Religion - Clergy
Retail Price: $20.95
Pages: 320
'Always trust a stranger,' said David's mother when he returned from Rome. 'IIt's the people you know who let you down.'
Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends two local teenagers who live in a world he barely understands. Their company stirs memories of earlier happiness—his days at a Catholic school in Yorkshire, the student revolt in 1960s Oxford, and a choice he once made in the orange groves of Rome. But their friendship also ignites the suspicions and smoldering hatred of a town that resents strangers, and brings Father David to a reckoning with the gathered tensions of past and present.