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"Hilarious...a magnificent book" (Graham Greene)
"Huge, bitterly funny and superbly presented montage of the false nostrums that assailed Christianity like worms" (Sunday Times)
"Funny, sad, knowledgeable" (Irish Times)
"Brilliant and intricate black comedy" (Time Out)
A novel of satiric insight and comic despair dealing with the lives and loves of ten young Catholics in the 1960s and 70s.
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