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The Perpetual Curate
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ISBN13: 9781667666587
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Apr 8 2026
Pages: 450
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the quiet English town of Carlingford, a young Anglican clergyman holds an unusual position-perpetual curate of a chapel with no living to offer, no glebe, and no security. His faith in his calling is tested on every side: by a beloved uncle who would have him abandon his High Church sympathies for a comfortable evangelical living, by the rival claims of a brother whose rakish life brings scandal to the family name, and by the woman he loves, who will not bind herself to a future so uncertain.
When a crisis erupts in his tiny parish-touching on questions of ritual, conscience, and clerical authority-he must decide what he truly believes and what he is willing to sacrifice for it. Around him, the townspeople of Carlingford pursue their own ambitions and heartaches, forming a richly observed tapestry of Victorian provincial life in which public reputation and private sorrow are always entangled.
Tender, shrewd, and quietly devastating, this is a novel about vocation and compromise, love and duty, and the cost of remaining true to oneself in a world that rewards accommodation.
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