The trial of father Dillingham : a novel

J. Broderick

This novel is dealing with the illness, leukemia and suicide of Maurice O'Connell and its impact on a circle of friends, migrants from the midlands whose urbanity is tested living as tenants in a Georgian house in Dublin. The other actors Jim Dillingham, an ex-priest cast out of the Catholic church for heresy, Eddie-Doyle lover of Maurice and looking after them all is La Keeley, The La an imposing 70-year-old mother figure. A study of people who live on the periphery of conventional life.