Another brilliant book.
An otherworldly priest in Cornwall (it links explicitly to no.37 above), not quite otherworldly enough to avoid adultery, and father and son, who is later paralysed in a rugby accident.
The son wants to end his life and asks the priest to read some religious text for the dying as he commits suicide, not knowing that the priest is his father.
The priest then becomes a celebrity. He has an enemy who leaks the paternity of the boy to the priest's wife, who dies of a heart attack as a result.
That's a crude plot outline that does no justice at all to the book's richness.
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