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
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.