Facing The Tank Av Patrick Gale

<P><B>Patrick Gale''s early novel, FACING THE TANK is a witty, eccentric story of clergy, scandal and English eccentrics </B><br><br><B> ''Made me laugh out loud'' <I>Sunday Times</I></B><br><br>American Professor Evan Kirby, author of a successful book on Hell, moves to Barrowcester in the south England expecting to find the very epitome of a cathedral society of gentle clergymen and coffee mornings. <br><br>What he encounters instead is a small city thrown into chaos by scandalous pregnancies, a Satanic summoning of a young feral girl and strange, supernatural events that threaten to rock the hitherto genteel, church going community.<br><br><B>''Gale speedily unleashes his merrily black mischief. The uncovering of the sadness behind the doilies and twinsets is in the best tradition of black humour'' <I>Observer</I></B><br><br><B>What readers have loved about FACING THE TANK:</B><br><br><B>''A </B><B>brilliantly observed story, dark, humorous, sometimes subtly, sometimes uproarious'' </B><B>⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐</B><br><br><B>''</B><B>It takes as the main theme a black comedy of religious experience and small town life, and applies several hard twists to the plot. Like Trollope''s Barchester, but with drugs, AIDS and miracles'' </B><B>⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐</B></P>