{"product_id":"9781529176117","title":"Touching Cloth : Confessions and communions of a young priest","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Touching Cloth can be compared to Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt and the writings of the Secret Barrister' Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I laughed my way through this... Funny, fascinating, and gorgeously humane' Marina Hyde\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Funny and touching in equal measure' Tom Holland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA laugh-out-loud memoir of becoming a 21st-century priest, Touching Cloth is also a love letter to the Prayer Book, Liverpool, funerals, cake tins, lager and, above all, to what the Church of England can be at its best. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe very word 'reverend' inspires solemnity. To be a priest is to dedicate one's life to quiet prayer and spiritual contemplation. Isn't it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFergus Butler-Gallie reveals what it's like to become a priest in the twenty-first century. Find out why black really is slimming, how to keep a straight face when someone is inadvertently hot-boxing a funeral, and which royal-themed biscuit tin can best contain a very loud personal alarm that no one knows how to switch off. Spot a sweet old lady trying to pay for a taxi with coinage from fascist Spain? Congratulations, shepherd, she's your problem now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBehind the daily scrapes is an all-too-human love letter to the Church of England, and the amazing variety of people who manage to keep it going, providing a listening ear, company and community at a time when so many people desperately need it, as well as a reflection on what it means to follow a spiritual path amid the chaos of the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin (Transworld)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48226433204459,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":34.88,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781529176117-1.jpg?v=1784278059","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781529176117","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}