The Priest's Wife, Isle Fincara Trilogy, Book 2

Second Book of The Isle Fincara Trilogy Awarded a Literary Book Grant by the Books Council of Wales. The Priest's Wife is set on an imaginary island, somewhere between Scotland and Ireland, a thousand years ago and a world away. When her husband the priest dies, Morag loses more than her life partner. With him goes her home and her place in the community. In addition to these misfortunes, in a society that sets great store by lineage, she is challenged about the mysterious identity of her mother, and it is this that sets her on a quest of discovery that comes, at first, upon a blank, but in time leads her to the circle of the island's 'Guardians', who mediate her discovery of her mother's identity, and, step by step, her own deeper self-knowing and self-acceptance. When Aidan, the new priest, undertakes a campaign to upturn the township's spirituality, which has accommodated older druidical forms alongside the Christ story, both he and the community are set on a collision course. As tension builds the shareg (headman) of the town, must intervene. Finding no way through that conforms to the norms of his world, he must take a radical and unconventional step. The book explores mental breakdown (Aidan's) and severe depression (Morag's, at the mid-point of the story when she finds herself at an impasse). It reflects religious tensions that have existed historically. It celebrates the natural world and the resilience of the human spirit in resisting a coercive authority. In doing so, Morag steps into her full personhood.

The Priest's Wife

A. G. Rivett

Pantolwen Press

The Seaborne, Isle Fincara Trilogy, Book 1

In a world where climate scientists urge us to simplify our lives and the plight of refugees grows ever more pressing, The Seaborne offers a story about a white, educated, middle-class refugee who is obliged to reduce his carbon footprint to zero. It may be for this reason that the poet and academic, Damian Walford Davies, has described the novel as &#699;a parable for our particularly torn times.&#700; &#65279;&#65279;John Finlay is fleeing from failure. His engineering business has failed, his relationship has failed. His flight from debts leads him to disaster - and to the Island, where he must learn to live anew. Dermot, pulling a body, barely alive, from the water, has never seen anyone so strangely dressed. His Celtic island knows nothing of debt, nor engineering. Where has this man come from? John struggles to accept that he has been carried across time and into another world - both like and unlike his own. How he got there is a mystery. But John the foreigner must turn slowly into Dhion the Islander. Still, he brings with him unfinished business that must be faced, and ideas that may not always be welcomed. Meanwhile Dermot, consumed with a growing jealousy, develops his own deadly agenda. The whole community finds itself caught up in what becomes a matter of survival - or transformation. A tale of discovery and reassessment, in which John-Dhion must struggle to find himself, his role, his love and his place in this new, old, world. A novel of Celtic quantum time that asks us to consider the ways in which we are all born strangers, seaborne foundlings, living between worlds. A parable for our particularly torn times. Damian Walford Davies Quite captivating. I love the elemental quality and the constant presence of the wild and rugged landscape. The characters are strong and believable. A deep and thought-provoking book. Josie Smith A beautiful story, imbued with Celtic themes and a deep spirituality. The story unfurls like a flower coming into bloom. Don MacGregor, Midwest Book Review This was such an engaging read. The author does a great job of creating a breathtaking world that draws the reader in and populates it with characters that keep the reader invested throughout. authoranthonyavinablog.com It is notoriously difficult to create an internally consistent and convincing alternative universe - something I think Rivett has achieved magnificently. Richard Danckwerts Coaxes us to turn to a simpler, more community-based way of living where there are no or fewer planes in the sky and our lives are forced into simplicity, personal creativity, greater stillness. Jo Parsons I found myself sad when I had to leave the island at the end of the book, because I enjoyed the peace and strength that it lent me. www.woodbtwntheworlds.blogspot.com

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The Priest's Wife

The Seaborne, Isle Fincara Trilogy, Book 1

The Seaborne, Isle Fincara Trilogy, Book 1