During the mid-2000s, there was a brief publishing trend for feel-good novels with folksy titles: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. They’d pop up as recommendations on Richard and Judy’s Book Club and turn the authors into overnight best-sellers.
I’m late to the party, but I do think my own Yoga for Catholics would have sparked a bidding war. A young woman is judged and castigated for her apparently incompatible life choices, before a heart-warming resolution brokered by a sexy priest (years ahead of Fleabag) played by Matthew McConaughey in the film adaptation.
