“Two sexually frustrated men on a sleepy Mediterranean island mix with a beautiful girl and her scheming suitor. An interesting interplay of religion, love and morality with a fast-paced plot.” Houston Chronicle
Devout Catholic Robert Clover, haunted by a shattered marriage and the shame of his sterility, journeys to the Mediterranean island of San Jaime, where he hopes a miracle will cure his infertility. While there, he’s befriended by Buck, a Canadian writer who is battling his homosexual yearnings by bedding any woman on the island he can find. Robert soon falls passionately in love with Nieves, a twenty-year-old housekeeper, and when she becomes pregnant, he believes his miracle has been granted…or has it? While Buck, unable to ignore his desires, has a torrid encounter with Nieves’ boyfriend Paco that leads to misery.
“Keen insight into the problems of love.” Syracuse Post-Standard
“The book runs the gauntlet of emotions from apathy, to love, to passion and to ultimate tragedy.” The Birmingham News
“An ironic island idyll is tainted by a sense of sin and sexual torment. All of this is touchy, for some taboo, material for a lighter entertainment which, essentially, this is.” Kirkus Reviews
Previously published as The Miracle on San Jaime.
John Cantwell /
Literary Fiction
