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Title: Nature's Playthings
Publisher: Code Green Publishing
Pages: 183
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN 978-1-907215-23-0

Publication date: 10th September 2014

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After the events of ‘Transient Beings’ the former rector finds that he is adrift in an unfamiliar world. We see him come to life having been disconnected from his feelings by the pressures of his wife’s alcoholism and his own crisis of faith. As an older man he finally has the opportunity to find some contentment in his life and relationships.

  
 
 

Title: Transient Beings
Publisher: Code Green Publishing
Pages: 212
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN 978-1-907215-18-6

Publication date: 23rd October 2012

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This book has been on my mind for a long time. I wrote it because I wanted to show what life can really be like for Church of Ireland rectors and to expose the human beings behind the job. I also wanted to give a voice to those people whose life is religion and who find they are forced to reassess their own beliefs.

There are expectations laid upon the rectory family that puts them in a different category from ‘ordinary people’. When the child of a rector gets into trouble at school, a teacher will often say: ‘….and your father a clergyman’. People who live in rectories are as human as anybody else. ‘There is no greater heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.’ This is as true for the rector’s wife as it is for the rector.

The novel is made up of transient beings. Some come from the past and pass through the present and some in the present refuse to leave the past. The rector's life is changing in ways he does not yet understand. How long does this idyllic rectory in the heart of rural Ireland in the 1970's hide the secrets of those who live behind its walls?

  

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Follow this link for a real-life account of a vicar's wife similar to the principal character of 'Transient Beings'