The Priest's Wife - Isle Fincara Trilogy (2) by A G Rivett

The Priest's Wife - Isle Fincara Trilogy (2) by A G Rivett

Second Book of The Isle Fincara Trilogy

Awarded a Literary Book Grant by the Books Council of Wales.

The Priest's Wife is set on an imaginary island, somewhere between Scotland and Ireland, a thousand years ago and a world away. When her husband the priest dies, Morag loses more than her life partner. With him goes her home and her place in the community. In addition to these misfortunes, in a society that sets great store by lineage, she is challenged about the mysterious identity of her mother, and it is this that sets her on a quest of discovery that comes, at first, upon a blank, but in time leads her to the circle of the island's 'Guardians', who mediate her discovery of her mother's identity, and, step by step, her own deeper self-knowing and self-acceptance.

When Aidan, the new priest, undertakes a campaign to upturn the township's spirituality, which has accommodated older druidical forms alongside the Christ story, both he and the community are set on a collision course. As tension builds the shareg (headman) of the town, must intervene. Finding no way through that conforms to the norms of his world, he must take a radical and unconventional step.

The book explores mental breakdown (Aidan's) and severe depression (Morag's, at the mid-point of the story when she finds herself at an impasse). It reflects religious tensions that have existed historically. It celebrates the natural world and the resilience of the human spirit in resisting a coercive authority. In doing so, Morag steps into her full personhood.

Rivett, A. G.: - Andrew (A.G.) Rivett was born in London. His first degree was in medicine, and he practised in hospital medicine in London and in a leprosy hospital in northern Nigeria. He edited the medical school Gazette, and wrote a collection of short stories. In 1987 he was ordained into the stipendiary ministry of the Church of England. It wasn't a good fit, and after 12 years he returned to medicine as a public health doctor in Southampton. In 2006 he retired to the remote peninsula of Scoraig and in the spiritual community of Findhorn in Scotland. Here he met his second wife, Gillian Paschkes-Bell and they often work as a writing team. They now live in West Wales.

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ISBN 13	9781739362300
ISBN 10	1739362306
Titel	The Priest's Wife - Isle Fincara Trilogy (2)
Autor	A G Rivett
Serie	The Isle Fincara Trilogy
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Bryn Glas Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2023-10-20
Seitenanzahl	348
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