GLASS OF BLESSINGS

Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her sober husband Rodney who works at the Ministry is slightly balder and fatter than he once was. Wilmet would like to think she has changed rather less. Her interest wanders to the nearby church where she can neglect her comfortable household in the more serious-minded company of three unmarried priests and of course Piers Longridge, a man of an unfathomably different character altogether. With an introduction by John Bayley who says 'The setting and the characters are perfectly aligned with each other. Mr Bason, for example, is an excellent cook and a bit of a kleptomaniac.' 277pp, paperback.