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Father Hilary's Holiday

Father Hilary's Holiday is a 1965 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall.

Author

Constable (UK)
Doubleday (US)

1965

Scotland

Print (hardback)

179

Plot summary[edit]

After thirty years in the priesthood, Father Hilary seizes the opportunity to attend a religious congress in South America. Father Hilary's well earned holiday is to be spent at a sort of ecumenical conference convened by "el Libertator" the Generalissimo of Tomasia. The result is a witty, pointed tale of humble but outspoken Franciscan friar and his wondrous escapades in the boiling maelstrom of a mythical Latin American dictatorship.[1]