Publisher's Synopsis
From the hit BBC TV series Father Peter Clifford's arrival in the rural Irish town of Ballykissangel is something of a shock. Ballykissangel is by no means the sleepy backwater he was expecting - and the locals don't find their new priest half as ridiculous as they'd have liked. But can an Englishman ever really fit in? Among the memorable characters are wheeler-dealer Brian Quigley, who has just installed an automated confessional - complete with fax machine - in the church; and Niamh, his daughter, who, rather oddly, looks to Father Peter for advice on premarital sex. And there's Father Mac, the parish priest, who is fond of a drink but rather less fond of the English clergy, as well as the beautiful, fiery and fiercely anti-clerical Assumpta Fitzgerald in whom Father Peter finds an attractive sparring partner...
