Enforcing Terrible Secrets
This year’s Giller winner revisits the Roman Catholic sex scandals January–February 2010
A transition from journalism to literature is not always easy or successful, but The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre proves definitely that it can be done. MacIntyre, for decades the CBC’s voice and face of fresh disasters on the fifth estate and other programs, has written one previous novel (The Long Stretch) anda memoir (Causeway: A Passage from Innocence) before creating this fictional work centred on the grim topic of priestly pedophilia and set in the author’s native Cape…