The bishop's man : a novel

ISBN: 9780307372857 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0307372855 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: remote 1 online resource (399 pages)
Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, [2009]
Copyright: &copy;2009

Summary: Father Duncan MacAskill has spent most of his priesthood as the 'Exorcist' - an enforcer employed by his bishop to discipline wayward priests and suppress potential scandal. While sequestered by his bishop in a small rural parish to avoid an impending public controversy, Duncan must confront the consequences of past cover-ups and the suppression of his own human needs. Pushed to the breaking point by loneliness, tragedy and sudden self-knowledge, he discovers how hidden obsessions and guilty secrets either find their way to the light of understanding, or poison any chance we have for love and spiritual peace.