The Rev. Merrily Watkins is the "deliverance consultant" -- a euphemism for exorcist -- for a diocese on the Welsh border. A Wiccan couple move into a long-deconsecrated church in a remote village, and the local fundamentalist-style Anglican priest leads a witchhunt.
The viewpoint characters are all entertaining: level-headed Merrily; her smart-alec teenager, Jane; their old codger neighbor, Gomer; and the two Wiccans, Betty and Robin. The plot is both page-turning and unhurriedly developed: the first body takes 250 pages to appear. We learn something about contemporary village life, Wales, Anglicanism, Wicca, and religious intolerance.
Recommended.
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