Give Us This Day - Softcover

Tulloch, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224061690 ISBN 13: 9780224061698

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

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. Part love story, part thriller, Give Us This Day is a compelling tale of love and faith and the risks of intimacy. A novel in the tradition of Graham Greene, Give Us This Day is above all a poignant study of what it is to be human.

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Review:

'Half-tragic, half-hopeful, always unsentimental, Give Us This Day is a wholly absorbing novel.' -- The Guardian

Tulloch's apparently simple and introspective drama turns out to be an immensely resonant and powerful story -- Laurence Phelan in The Independent on Sunday, 31 July 2005

From the Publisher:

A powerful novel of love and belief, part-thriller, part love story. The best book yet from the author of The Season Ticket

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0224061690
• ISBN 13: 9780224061698
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288