Mixed Blessings

By Peter Somerville Large

In PETER SOMERVILLE-LARGE's elegant and scathingly witty novel, Paul Blake-Willoughby, the only child of a mixed marriage, is brought up on an Irish country estate by a Catholic soldier father and an eccentric Protestant mother. Against the backdrop of a large crumbling mansion, various factions, which include his Protestant teachers, a wealthy Church of Ireland Bishop and a succession of Catholic priests, war hilariously over his soul. It is a brilliant and extremely funny examination of the topics of snobbery, bigotry and infidelity. The end of the novel is a cruel surprise, reflecting a lifetime of unresolved problems.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0956223184
• ISBN13: 9780956223180
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Somerville Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"