Peter CostelloThis is the seventh and final instalment in the continuing story of Martha Long’s heroine. All have been most successful, but this book has a striking twist to its tale.
Learning her childhood abuser is dying, the girl hopes she can witness his last pains and delight in them. But the experience turns out not to be as she expected. As she sits with him, she realises that before her is frail, dying old man, facing dissolution with fear and trembling. This puts her experience and his life into a very different perspectives.
Not perhaps everyone’s kind of story, but one which will awaken many echoes for Catholic readers of how we are told we should relate to others with a sense of forgiveness. A very moving book.