Grey Town

“He shall have his price—from you,” Father Healy tells an agent who insists Ebenezer Brown will never sell the hilltop land. In Grey Town, even a miser’s refusal may not be the last word.

On Australia’s coast, Grey Town climbs above a river mouth where swollen waters battle the sea, and its church looks down over the town’s rival congregations. Father Healy has won the ground for his church and school, but Ebenezer Brown—the wealthy miser who now owns the local newspaper—has other ways of making his influence felt. Around them, a generous but easygoing journalist, lively parishioners and children who slip past the garden gate give the town its warmth and its mischief. Father Healy hopes Grey Town can be an example of concord; can its people keep that peace when money and old grievances pull them apart?

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