Clergyman's

It's a bad day when the biggest thing you catch is a seagull.
- Bernard MacLaverty

It's a bad day when the biggest thing you catch is a seagull.
- Bernard MacLaverty

Once you've been through a tragedy you're scared of it ever after,"" Mrs Morton said.
- Bernard MacLaverty

Do you still want to - refuse to help?""
""I'm afraid so.""
""Not to act - you know - is to act. By not doing anything you are helping to keep the Brits here.
- Bernard MacLaverty

Do you still want to - refuse to help?""
""I'm afraid so.""
""Not to act - you know - is to act. By not doing anything you are helping to keep the Brits here.
- Bernard MacLaverty

When they had come recruiting to his school - 'for fishers of men' - all those years ago and had offered the glittering lures of sanctity and safety, Michael had jumped selflessly.
It was a long time before the line pulled taut and he felt the pain of the hooks within him and the irony of the fisherman caught.
- Bernard MacLaverty

Suddenly a police Land Rover with its hee-haw siren blaring swung into the main road behind them with a squeal of tyres. It roared along and overtook them so fast its body tilted at an angle to the chassis.
Someone said, ""Jesus, they'll sell no ice cream going at that speed.
- Bernard MacLaverty

Now that they had mobile phones, theoretically it should have been easier to keep tabs on one another. But practically it had not helped. In the first instance you had to remember to bring the bloody thing with you. If you had it with you, invariably one or other of the mobiles was switched off or needed charging. And then, even if you did get through, Stella's phone had some mysterious setting which diverted incoming calls straight to 'Leave a message'. And her phone did not ring. And she did not answer it.
- Bernard MacLaverty

Purring was the funniest thing, like a motorbike in the distance.
- Bernard MacLaverty

Purring was the funniest thing, like a motorbike in the distance.
- Bernard MacLaverty