Michael Carson
Michael Carson is the pen name of British author Michael Wherly. He is best known for his Benson trilogy of novels, about a young man growing up Catholic and homosexual.
When the ghost of a traitor, dead since 1916, appears to Boma Hephernan, news travels fast and a pious trade in statues and holy pictures takes off. Miracles begin to occur and the sleepy Irish village of Ardfert, in particular Bird McCarthy's bed and breakfast, is transformed.