He spends his evenings in the Royal Hoey hotel in the centre of town, propping up the bar, drinking pints of stout and whiskey chasers. He is older, disillusioned, and utterly exhausted. A failed Catholic priest back living in Athlone where his career started in the 1960s. Living under the shadow of his famous uncle, now a cardinal in Philadelphia, forty-eight-year-old Fr John Winter, by contrast, is burnt out. ‘Worse things than dying a Fr John Winter novel,’ follows a retired priest, a high-powered cardinal, a demented scientist, a tormented businessman and two disabled lovers who have found love with each other, as they confront these issues and struggle with the most basic of all questions, what does ‘human’ mean anymore?īleakmount Parish, Mid-Roscommon 1854-1880 and Athlone and Philadelphia and Virginia, 1984 Ireland. Where would you stop? How far would you go? If you had the power, would you take a loved one from their resting place in the grave, if there was a chance you could breathe new life into them? If you had the power, would you help an old friend and a tortured young man, even at the risk of destroying your own health? If you had the power, would you kill your present child to create a better, healthier one? Worse things than dying: A Fr John Winter novel
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