- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (1 Oct 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007305354
- ISBN-13: 978-0007305353
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Divorcing Jack: 'A joy from start to finish! Witty, fast-paced and throbbing with menace, Divorcing Jack reads like The Thirty-Nine Steps rewritten for the '90s by Roddy Doyle' Time Out Cycle of Violence: 'Bateman's is the ultimate word on the insanity of the Troubles: no one has done it better' Scotland on Sunday Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men: 'Fast, furious, riotously funny and at the end, never a dry eye in the house' Mail on Sunday Empire State: 'A hugely enjoyable novel! blessed with a beautiful sense of irony! It's like Carl Hiaasen, Tom Wolfe, and Roddy Doyle at their best' The Herald
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Dan Starkey investigates the birth of a new Messiah on a small island off the coast of Ireland. Back together with his wife Patricia and the baby -- Little Stevie -- that resulted from her affair, Dan accepts a curious commission from Cardinal Daley to investigate the tiny island of Wrathlin, where the inhabitants appear to believe that the new Messiah has been born. The child in question turns out to be a girl called Christine, and the local population has become as defensive and generally crazy as the cast of The Crucible. At first it's just funny for Dan and Trish, but fairly soon the mood turns very much darker. Packed with Bateman's trademarket mixture of jokes, shocks and tenderness, Turbulent Priests is his best novel yet.
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Have read all of Colin Bateman's stuff over the last few years and have always enjoyed the wry and twisted comedy he brings to characters. This sadly is, like the previous one, very predictable and feels like a 'write by numbers' effort, again, as did the last. Can't see me buying any more of his.
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Great story(though not his best),well worth a read for dedicated Bateman fans like myself. Plot is very believable and Dan Starkey is a great character.
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As with all Bateman's 'Dan Starkey' novels, this is a page-turner - with an imaginative twist! Exciting, chaotic, and full of dark humour - so hard to put down that it could easily be finished in one sitting! Highly recommended! An essential addition to your Bateman collection!
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