Give Us This Day
  • Published: 15 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099422150
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.99

Give Us This Day

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'This is Graham Greene territory; part love story, part thriller - a moving account of a man's battle for his own soul' - The Times

Tom Carey is a priest in crisis. God's good world has curdled and the Church is beset by scandal. Increasingly, he is haunted by the face of a woman he once secretly loved.

Abandoning his comfortable parish he buries himself in the post of Port Chaplain on a busy river, but soon finds himself caught up in the murky world of international people-smuggling. The alluring but sinister Captain Cargo and his beleaguered Filipino crew seem intent on forcing him into a radical expression of his priesthood, but a chance encounter with the woman he has not seen for thirty years throws his vocation and faith into question.
  • Published: 15 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099422150
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Jonathan Tulloch

Jonathan Tulloch has written many novels, including The Season Ticket, winner of the Betty Trask Prize, and Give Us This Day. He has also won a K Blundell Award and the J.B. Priestley Award. The Times Literary Supplement listed him as one of the best young British writers. His work has been filmed and translated into five languages.

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A Winding Road
The Bonny Lad
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Praise for Give Us This Day

Vividly alive

Margaret Walters, Sunday Times

Tulloch masterfully fashions a foreboding gothic landscape out of this godforsaken colony of the damned... An immensely resonant and powerful story

Laurence Phelan, Independent on Sunday

A beautifully nuanced study of a dedicated, decent man who discovers that the simplistic pieties of his training fail to cover the moral complexities of the world in which he lives

Michael Arditti, Daily Mail

Jonathan Tulloch confirms his promise with Give Us This Day, a beautifully nuanced study of a Teesside chaplain

Daily Express

Half-tragic, half-hopeful, always unsentimental, Give Us This Day is a wholly absorbing novel

D.J. Taylor, Guardian

A beautifully written and compelling story of the search for truth and integrity

Bernard O'Donoghue

The blighted northern English landscape is rendered lovingly... A skillfully paced, readable novel

Times Literary Supplement