It is 1965 and Charles Ashworth has attained the plum position of bishop of Starbridge an honor that keeps him in a heady whirl of activity that would exhaust the most seasoned corporate executive. With the invaluable support of his minions and his attractive unsinkable wife Ashworth stands against the amorality and decadence of the age—"Anti-Sex Ashworth." He slays his opponents by being a tough efficient confident churchman the torments of his past long since dead and buried. And then the unexpected the unthinkable strikes. Suddenly Ashworth finds himself staring into the chasm of all the lies hes been telling himself for years: about his marriage his children even his views on the Church. And as he suspects his old nemesis and dean Neville Aysgarth of drinking too much of financial chicanery of—God forbid—having an affair Ashworth discovers to his horror that he is tempted to commit the very acts that he has so publicly denounced....
