This is a love letter from Dominic Francis Hood - Roman Catholic, sadist, conspirator to murder, witness to a miracle.
Dominic's childhood ought to be happy - he believes that his family and God are looking after him - but he is disturbed by his attraction to forbidden, adult things. When he sees the travelling exorcist Father Ignatius Malone perform a miracle, Dominic is convinced: there is something deeply wrong with his soul, and the one man who can help him has disappeared.
So begins Dominic's twenty-five-year odyssey through the worlds of black and white magic: his road trip with a clairvoyant; his experiments with love and betrayal; his three shattering encounters with Deborah Black, co-conspirator in sadism. The search for Malone finally demands answers to the questions that have always haunted him - What is the worst thing he can imagine doing? Given the opportunity, would he do it?
By turns hilarious, appalling, celebratory and sad, 'Weathercock' is a searing moral investigation of sexuality, of our most profound temptations and the weapons - sometimes formidable, sometimes frail - we bring to bear against them.
