The jealous god
Set in the early 1960s among the Irish Catholic community in a small Yorkshire town, the book is about a 30-year-old mummy's boy and his attempts at liberating himself from his domineering mother. The title refers to the latter's wish that her "favourite" son, although already rather old for following his alleged vocation, become a clergyman
Print Book, English, 1965 [©1964]
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1965 [©1964]