# Turbulent Priests

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- Book: [Turbulent Priests](https://www.bookquiver.com/colin-bateman/turbulent-priests) ([Turbulent Priests.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/colin-bateman/turbulent-priests.md))
- Authors: [Colin Bateman](https://www.bookquiver.com/colin-bateman)
- Publisher: headline
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-5537-879-1
- Published: 2012-02-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Dan Starkey arrives on Wrathlin Island - meteorogically wet but alcoholically dry - to investigate the residents' belief that the Messiah is alive, female, and about to start school there: it's not a commission that turns up every day. With wife Patricia and her baby Little Stevie, he finds himself caught up in a mess of religious intolerance, blokes with shooters and illicit drinking in a tiny community that is big on religious fervour but small on hospitality. Apart from the Messiah's mum of course, who's clung to her sanity. And her lager.