AustLit

'At the age of nearly forty, Christopher Geraghty stopped dancing with the devil and invited another partner out onto the dance floor. A Catholic Priest for nearly fifteen years, Geraghty endured bullying and persecution. This, coupled with a desire for intimacy and belonging, eventually caused Geraghty to turn his back on the priesthood for a chance at love and a family.

'During the ensuing thirty-five years, while learning to dance to a different beat, Geraghty studied law and, for the last sixteen years of his professional life, worked as a judge in Sydney.

'This is a story that it is at times painful, sometimes funny, at times embarrassing and surprisingly honest. By luck and the grace of God, his story has a happy ending.

'Geraghty's book is full of evidence to support his conclusions about the Church as a "big corporation" prepared to "do what it takes" to get what it wants. The hierarchy does not come out well.' (From the publisher's website.)

'Set in Northern India from the 1940s to the 1980s, this is the true story of a girl who was the love child of an American Jesuit priest and an Indian Catholic nun. Esther Lyons tells the story of her tireless search for her father and her struggle for an identity. She now lives in Sydney and continues to fight for her inheritance.' (Publication summary)