The Ragged Believers The Ragged Believers

The Ragged Believers

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The Seashore Boarding House, nestled in the woods on the rocky shore of Pocomoonshine Bay in the late ’twenties, is a haven for travellers on the lonely dirt road nearby, and for the villagers and workers of the woods communities, offering shelter, food, first aid, abortions, and the comforts of its girls.



At the centre of the house and its operations is the enigmatic figure of Nurse, who tells her girls, “You are nurses, as well as chamber maids, cooks, waitresses, and prostitutes.”



A naïve young lawyer, Duncan Strathearn, stumbles into this amoral world when he loses control of his car as he negotiates a forest fire. His rescuers take him to the Seashore Boarding House, where he is gradually drawn into the lives of its band of regulars, and to Jenny, one of Nurse’s girls, despite the warnings of both Jenny and Nurse that his love will not be – can never be – returned by her.



Meanwhile the new highway being pushed through the woods from the 25 mile distant city is bringing the modern world, and modern morality, ever closer to the boarding house, and Duncan finds himself at the forefront of its fight against the increasingly threatening reforming zeal of the Tabernacle of the Disciples of Fire, with its thousands of followers, among them the most influential citizens of the city.



It is Nurse’s love haunted past that is the source of both the boarding house’s success and, through strange coincidence, its downfall in the final, unexpectedly violent confrontation with the Reverend Child, the cold and calculating leader of the Disciples.



The Ragged Believers is about holding on – to a threatened way of life, to forlorn love, to lost love, and above all, to belief.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2016
October 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
176
Pages
PUBLISHER
Speaking Volumes
SELLER
Speaking Volumes
SIZE
1.2
MB

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