The Pilgrimage

<p><b>'Fearless and frank and sometimes comic' Colm Tóibín</b></p><p><b>'I absolutely loved <i>The Pilgrimage</i>... Brilliant... A book about what it feels like to live with doubt and still keep going' Orla Mackey</b></p><p><b> 'A brooding and beautifully observed short novel' Jan Carson</b></p><p>Someone knows about Julia Glynn's affair. She and husband Michael are the envy of their neighbours: prosperous, devout, the model couple. Then one day, an anonymous letter arrives with the morning papers, describing Julia's trysts with Michael's nephew in obscene detail.</p><p>Frantic with suspicion and frustrated desire, Julia imagines catastrophe in their small, curtain-twitching town. As the letters keep arriving, she struggles to retain composure and proceed with plans for a family pilgrimage to Lourdes - only for other buried scandals to come knocking at the door of their pristine home.</p><p>Frank in its depiction of sexuality and queerness in 1950s Ireland, <i>The Pilgrimage</i> was immediately banned on original publication. Outrageous and bleakly funny, it is a powerful evocation of the corrosive effects of repression.</p>