Publisher's Synopsis
Josie Welford, wealthy widow and licensee of the White Hart gastro-pub, is attending morning service in her quiet country church when a filthy Chinese youth flings himself into the church and demands sanctuary. Josie supports Father Tim Martin's decision to protect Tang, but it's not long before the media are involved, bringing fatal results not just to the priest and the refugee, but to St Jude's itself. Police investigations are strangely slow, so Josie takes matters into her own hands, assisted by no less a personage than the rural dean ... who is alternately entranced and repelled by Josie's methods.
