A love story that is concerned with the questions facing young people growing up in the 1950s Tessa's group of Catholic friends talk about every issue except what is to turn out to be the greatest one to face them and the unworldly young priest who guides them If you take religion seriously, how can you contend with love in all of its strangely various and unexpected forms? Sad and funny by turns, the novel faces also the question of the Bomb, Suez and contraception