A deeply affecting love story from the author of THIn Air Sarah is taking a break from her eco-warrior activities, looking after her sister's wholefood shop in a small west of Ireland town. When a dying calf is found on the local dump, she begins to make some enquiries. Before long, the dark shadow cast by modern beef production begins to emerge in another, more sinister form, and Sarah finds that her path keeps crossing that of the town butcher, Malachy Glynn. Their outlooks on life are clearly polarised, yet they find themselves uneasy allies. Because something even more compelling than the grisly events of the parish is drawing them together. Sarah and Malachy have a lot more in common than they know. An Act Of Worship vividly explores how the dead and the unborn inform the living, and how life and love
- ISBN10 0340739606
- ISBN13 9780340739600
- Publish Date 17 May 2001 (first published 2 November 2000)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 13 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Sceptre
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 272
- Language English