Grandmother and the priests

Grandmother and the priests

From dust jacket notes: "Rose McConnell was four years old when she first went to visit her Grandmother in Leeds, England in the year 1904. That Grandmother was a rich worldly Irish widow who loved good company. She gathered round her a group of priests who dined regularly with her and sat by her fireside talking of their experiences while Rose, now a child of six, listened spellbound. From the lives of these men Taylor Caldwell has woven a rich tapestry of adventures, fights against tyranny and triumphs over suffering: the struggle of a priest against the hatred of the local landowner who finally reveals his unhappy past; the dilemma of the priest who is sent to a desolate Scottish island to marry the laird to a kidnapped girl; the priest who investigates the murder of one of his parishioners in order to clear the stain of suicide from the dead man. Essentially, 'this is a story of heroes,' as Taylor Caldwell writes, 'whose lives were indeed hard and perilous and who often, like their Lord, had no place to lay their heads and only random shelter. They lived in an atmosphere of faith and fantasy and wonder and joy in life. Moreover, although they were often oppressed, they were truly free men, often lacking in deadly caution and never afraid.'"

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