Antipodean Booker-winner Thomas Keneally's new novel tells the story of a
liberal priest's uncovering of paedophilia in the Catholic church
during the mid-1990s.
In an early scene from Thomas Keneally's poignant new novel about
clerical sex abuse, a young Australian woman called Maureen Breslin goes
searching for her Irish roots on the Donegal coast. She is particularly
impressed by an outdoor Mass stone, where fugitive Catholic priests
used to hold ceremonies for their followers in defiance of Britain's
Penal Laws.