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The Final Retreat

A Novel

ISBN-13: 9781909631281

Author(s): Stephen Hough

Subjects: FA, FBA

Publisher: Sylph Editions

Publisher Imprint: Sylph Editions

Publication Date: 15-06-2018

Format: Hardback

Availability: In stock

£14.00
The Final Retreat

About the book

At the heart of this book lies the question of how far the idea of a priest as a wounded healer can be stretched. It is written as a diary-cum-memoir by Father Joseph, a middle-aged priest whose faith and life are in tatters, who is sent on an eight-day silent retreat by his kindly, sympathetic bishop. Apart from short daily meetings with a spiritual director, he speaks to no one. But he writes. Page after page, exploring the state of his soul, the loss of his vocation, his sexual addiction, and the events which are destroying his life.