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By Rev Fergus Butler-Gallie
Transworld £16.99
Touching Cloth is Butler-Gallie’s memoir of his first year, mainly in a Liverpool parish, after his ordination to the Anglican priesthood.
He writes like an overpraised teenager with breathless literary aspirations and determined to keep on saying, ‘Boo!’ to his maiden aunt.
His style is unusual, perhaps unique, and might be termed ecclesiasticalscatological; and for a parson, his vocabulary is rather unexpected, pickled with arse, arsehole shit,