Unholy Love

The Believers are a group of itinerant Christians who wander from settlement to settlement, preaching and spreading the Gospel. At their head is the charismatic Teacher, an old man now and dying. With him are his family: his wife, Mrs Fearson, his beautiful daughters, Bethlehem and Sion, and his three adopted sons ? Ben, Nat and Jarel. With them are Sarah, a reformed character, and Sailor, whose practical skills and cunning help to keep the group financially afloat. Teacher knows that he has very little time left and that he must find a place where he can die in peace and where he believes that God will reveal his successor. But beneath the outward piety and quietude of this Christian ?family? there are secret passions. Sion and Jarel are clandestine lovers. In his youth Jarel was a prostitute. Nat?s childhood in a church orphanage taught him the perils of forbidden love and the horror of sexual assault. Ben is deeply religious. The relationships of these five young people form the core of this story. Love and sex, jealousy and ambition, have wormed their way into The Believers? lives, and when they are given a temporary home by the lonely widow Martha, cracks in their cohesion and faith begin to show. A moving examination of the troubled relationship between sex and religion, this elegant novel has a strange, beguiling atmosphere all of its own.

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Author	Seamus McConnell
ISBN	9781846243776
Cover Type	Hardback
Format	216 x 135 mm
Publication Date	28/1/2010
Price:	£16.99

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