Duncan Falconer is a former SBS operative turned thriller writer. General Fiction
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Winner of the Silver Spoken Word Award for Best Television Adaptation 2002
Father Peter Clifford’s arrival in the rural Irish town of Ballykissangel comes as something of a shock to both him and the local residents.
Ballykissangel is by no means the sleepy backwater that he was expecting – and the locals don’t find their new priest half as ridiculous as they’d have liked. But can an Englishman ever really fit in?
The locals comprise a number of memorable characters. There’s wheeler-dealer Brian Quigley, who has just installed an automated confessional – complete with fax machine – in the church and Niamh, his daughter, who rather surprisingly looks to Father Peter for advice on premarital sex. And there’s Father Mac, the parish priest, who is fond of a drink but rather less fond of the English clergy, as well as the beautiful, fiery and fiercely anti-clerical Assumpta Fitzgerald in whom Father Peter finds an attractive sparring partner . . .
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