The Monk Upstairs

Tim Farrington

Sequels are usually inferior affairs, some just a rush to cash in on the success of the original. The Monk Upstairs is not one of them. The sequel to the The Monk Downstairs is equal to or better than the original. The story of a man who leaves the silence of a Catholic Monastery after 20 years to try to adapt to life in the secular world., this novel has beauty , spiritual depth and much humor. It will make you laugh as well as touch your heart deeply. After falling in love with his landlady in the original book, the sequel takes us to the bumpy road of marriage and of trying to reconcile a former life of prayer with complete focus on God to now a life of marital problems as well as physical joys.

The characters are totally real and they soon become a loved family to the reader. The emotional richness of this book will leave you wanting a sequel to the sequel.

Review by Tony Kainauskas

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