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Miss Gomez and the Brethren (1971)

Miss Gomez and the Brethren (1971)

Mystery Literary Fiction Orphans & Adoption

William Trevor

Year: 1971
Authors: William Trevor
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Beryl Tuke, whiling time away in the Thistle Arms with gin and cheap romances, and Alban Roche at Bassett's Petstore are among the street's dream-ridden survivors. A new arrival, Miss Gomez, lives for her postal correspondence with the Church of the Brethren of the Way in Jamaica. No one will believe Miss Gomez when she announces her revelation of a hideous sex crime soon to be committed in Crow Street. Until Prudence Tuke disappears, the police arrive, and the newspapers herald a 'Sex Crime Prophecy'...