Ballykissangel - A Sense Of Place

By Hugh Miller

• As ever, life in the rural Irish town of Ballykissangel is anything but humdrum.
• Peter Clifford, the English curate posted there, is settling in to the community and finding his feet among the colourful cast of locals whose antics never cease to amaze him.
• Wheeler-dealer Brian Quigley is rigging a beauty contest. There's a spate of gold prospecting watched over by a Blessed Virgin with an electric heart. A young widow is in Quigley's sauna with an ageing cleric, and two strangers are putting the fear of god into the whole town...
• Here again are the characters who delighted readers of Ballykissangel The New Arrival. There are newcomers, too: fading rock star Enda Sullivan has designs on Assumpta Fitzgerald; Con O'Neill's just a tearaway until he handles Guard Egans violin - and who's the sexy brunette living with ancient hill farmer Eamonn Byrne?
• Life in Ballykissangel continues at a cracking pace - and Father Mac, the parish priest, disapproves as much as ever.