Irish Connoisseur's Irish Book Club

The All of It: A Novel
by Jeannette Haien

Jeannette Haien's award-winning first novel relates the seemingly simple tale of a parishioner confiding in her priest, but the tangled confession brings secrets to light that provoke a moral quandary for not only the clergyman, but the reader as well.

Set in a small town in Ireland, Haien's intimate novel of conversations and dilemmas is "an elegantly written, compact and often subtle tale of morality and passion that gives voice to an age-old concern in a fresh way" (NewYork Times Book Review). Harper Perennial breathes new life into this 1986 classic in a new edition with an introduction by Ann Patchett.