A Truthful Man: A Modern Catholic Novel by Hilary Walker
This story starts with Mark and he's married to Mary. He's been cheating on her and the parish bishop learns of it, his brother in law. He collects money from the patrons of the church and invests it for them but things are not so clear and most seniors lose some or all of their savings...
He is shown some information but there is much more that he wants to get his hands on, so it can be destroyed.
His wife also finds out and her uncle, the bishop. He swears he will end it and erases all messages to Rita and that satisifies his wife and he's been to confession.
Problem is others find out and now they want to send him to a different parish. Things just get worse from there on. He had hoped to bribe a few and have her get rid of the baby...
Mark and Thomas had gone to university together and are familiar with one another. Mark is having a hard time, believing what he had done was wrong, how to make amends and still come out with something to his life....
There are a lot of confessions and spending time with the religious heads that sometimes lead him in the right direction. He is given the right direction he sometimes doesn't want to go that way...
At times the story is sad, then happy and meaningful, lot of emotions as it's a delicate subject to begin with.
Love the scene descriptions, the food, churches and the clergy clothing-when I started out knitting I made a clergy outfit for my brothers GI Joe. All the small pieces.
Received a review copy from the author and this is my honest opinion. ( )