And God For His Own

Thomas Clancy, son of an itinerant Irish farm labourer and a psychologically damaged English mother, has always been troubled by self-doubt. Having left a seminary because of doubts about the Catholic Faith, and subsequently failing in an attempt to become a schoolteacher, he now stands accused by his zealous mother, a convert to Catholicism, of being the cause of his father's apparent suicide. From this point on he is an angst ridden failure, a loser who plods through a life that seems purposeless.