Book description
Father Duncan MacAskill has spent most of his priesthood as the
'Exorcist' - an enforcer employed by his bishop to discipline wayward
clergy and suppress potential scandal.
Hidden in a small rural parish to avoid an impending public
controversy, Duncan must now confront the consequences of his past.
Pushed to the breaking point by loneliness, tragedy and sudden
self-knowledge, Duncan discovers how hidden obsessions and guilty
secrets either find their way to the light of understanding, or poison
any chance we have for love and spiritual peace.
Winner of the 2009 Giller Prize, Canada's Premier Literary Prize.
Linden MacIntyre is the co-host of
the fifth estate
and the winner of nine Gemini awards for broadcast journalism. He is
the author of the bestselling novel,
The Long Stretch
, nominated for a Libris Award and the Books in Canada first novel
award. His most recent book is a boyhood memoir,
Causeway: A Passage
from Innocence
won both the Edna Staebler Award for Non-fiction and the Evelyn
Richardson Prize for Non-fiction.
