AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Stephanie Convery, Lucy Clark and Steph Harmon
Friday 4 November 2016
Crimes of the Father by Tom Keneally (Vintage)
It’s a sad fact of humanity that abuse in the church is a perennially timely subject, but Tom Keneally’s latest novel seems to be particularly well timed with the ongoing royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.
Keneally’s story explores faith, marriage, celibacy and the Catholic church through the story of Father Frank Docherty, an excommunicated priest who returns to Australia and finds himself privy to stories of abuse by a now-senior cleric. A dramatic wrestle with conscience – and pursuit of justice – follows.
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