Lovers

Tom Connor arrives home from Dublin he has been lobbying the government to provide work for the islanders he represents to be told by his housekeeper, Marion Warde, that she is pregnant with his child. This would be a blow for any man but it is especially disastrous because Tom is the local parish priest. Because he is a man of strong conscience and no believer in clericalcelibacy he determines to tell his people thetruth. The resolution of his dilemma makesfor dramatic and heartbreaking reading.Lovers is the author's own translation ofSuil le Breith, the classic Irish-languagebestseller first published in 1983. BobQuinn's award-winning film, Budawanny,was based on this novel.Padraig Standun was born in 1946 andordained to the priesthood in 1971. Hehopes to continue with his twin vocations ofpriest and writer."Gaeltacht's answer to The Thorn Birds. " Sunday Tribune