Paul Zomers arranges a welcome for new neighbours Haydies and Persefony Sticks to the pristine hinterland above the coast. After more drinks than is wise, Paul blurts out that he knows Fr Pleasance who at that moment is featuring in media reports for the abuse of a minor. Partner Brad and the new neighbours will not let the mere mention pass. As Paul's story advances so does the number of glasses of champagne until he makes a confession that unleashes an uncontrollable chain of events. While he wrestles with events that eventually bring him to the attention of the national media, he gets unwittingly caught in a strange relationship with Persefony and her alternative life-style, a relationship that interferes in the rolling plans of others. The authors of those plans will not permit that interference.

...while [the story] depicts a people comfortable in their sin, there is something beneath the surface which communicates to the reader how very disordered the whole sequence of events is. It is in the absurd hypocrisy and the seeming inability of the various characters to connect the dots, as it were, between their own failings and the supposed failings of the Church that resounds with a message wholly at variance with the gross abominations perpetrated within. And this is—I should think—the goal of satire, to render absurd that which takes itself so very seriously...the author certainly achieves this...
Adam Mitchell Bond, Bradford, Pennsylvania USA

ISBN 978 1 876262 12 9, pb, 277 pages,  $27.95, PUBLISHED January 2010

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Seeking the Divine Spark is a work of fiction. Although I draw my inspiration often from actual events, all the people, places and events in the story are entirely fictitious. No character or place or event in the story represents a real person or real place or real event.