Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Wife Finder
    Unavailable
    The Wife Finder
    Unavailable
    The Wife Finder
    Ebook512 pages8 hours

    The Wife Finder

    By Michael McGarrigle

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    The Wife Finder
    Paul Kelly is that rarest of beings: a twenty-five-year-old Irish virgin. He leaves the confines of an Irish seminary three months before he is to be ordained and his first date, two months later, is organized by a grieving mother and her husband. He turns up wearing a corpse’s cast-offs and this state of affairs actually represents an upturn in his fortunes.
    He moves to London and quickly partially loses his first girlfriend, who eventually advises his second girlfriend on how best to partially dump him. Paul is an unconventional Lothario for his is the role of the wife finder.
    His search for understanding and the solution to the untenable mathematical equation, 1 + 1 = 1, leads him along an increasingly peculiar path where love, sex, bondage, confusion, no small amount of comedic slapstick, imminent psychological ruin and the ghosts of Saints Augustine and Ignatius Loyola, who is actually the fastest mouse in all Mexico, occupy and define his life with the sort of strange encounters that only the truly unbalanced or the contentedly weird could possibly conceive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael McGarrigle
    Release dateDec 21, 2015
    ISBN9780993300417
    Unavailable
    The Wife Finder
    Author

    Michael McGarrigle

    I write about what I know, so the best way to find out more about me, is to read my books or my blog, which is at http://michaelmcgarrigle.com/. I was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but I now live near the foot of a 1200m mountain in Hualien, which is a small city on the Pacific coast of Taiwan. I have my own English school, wherein I devise new ways to teach English to Chinese-speaking children of 4-16 years old with varied degrees of success, amusement and pleasure. The humorous and heart-rending stories that have involved the students and the teacher who toil in this school could probably fill several weighty tomes. I love poetry, music, my family, writing and living in a place where I am misunderstood regularly, but where I am tolerated, where I am well fed and healthy, where opening my front gate reveals a spectacular view of the olive coloured sheer slopes of the tall mountain that I have already mentioned and where I am ten minutes' drive from the glorious Pacific Ocean. I am grateful to this Earth’s inhabitants for giving me the sort of education that I could never have imagined to be possible in the callow days of my youth. I have experience in the teaching of English to Chinese-speaking children, television broadcasting, engineering, running a business, being a good and bad father, husband, son and brother, finding and losing friends, being violently ill in strange places and being scared rigid by the earthquakes to which I will probably never become accustomed and which regularly shake the ground on which I now live. I have backpacked in six continents and have been violently and spectacularly ill in three of them (blood both ends). I have written three very different novels and one travel book. “The Benign Abductor of Souls” has been available since the middle of June 2015. "The Wife Finder" has been available since September 2015. "Footprints in the Cheese", a book for teenage and young adult readers, has been available since May 2016. This book stated life as three books, but is now the last part of a trilogy, which I am writing back to front. Quiet desperation is not my thing, so I live in hope and leaven my most impractical optimism with copious amounts of annoying pragmatism. I have purchased ten ISBN’s and abhor waste, so you can expect a regular output of work. A word about pricing: I allow the reader to set the price for all of my work. I advise you to download anything for free at first, by changing the recommended price to 0.00. When you have read the book, you can then decide how much the experience was worth, in monetary terms. The recommended price for all of my books is US$1.49. Out of this, I get approximately US$1, on which I must then pay about 20% tax. I think that that is fair, since it probably takes most people at least twenty hours to read my books. Twenty hours of entertainment in the cinema equates to about twelve movies and in most countries that would cost you more than a hundred times the amount that I eventually receive for one book. If you cannot afford to pay money, for whatever reason, you could write to michaelmcgarriglenovels@gmail.com and let me know whether you enjoyed a book, or you might like to write a review on one the many review sites. I am grateful to anyone who gives time to reading what I have written and I know that everyone's circumstances are different so don't feel bad if you can't pay. Everything in life evens out eventually. If you don't do something for me directly, you will probably do something good for somene else and that goodness will eventually find its way back to me or someone about whom I care.

    Related to The Wife Finder

    Related ebooks

    Humor & Satire For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Commentary: Grappling with Catholicism

      Mar 8, 2019

      I am still a practicing Catholic. To write that now seems to beg an explanation. How can I continue to profess the faith within the bounds of an institution so thoroughly corrupted by the gravest of sins? How can I accept the host from the hands of m

      4 min read

    • Article

      God & Me magic Mushrooms

      Oct 5, 2023

      God & Me magic Mushrooms
      22 min read

    • Article

      Ghosts Who Walk Among Us: The Millions Interviews Claire Cronin

      Oct 19, 2020

      It wasn’t ghosts and demons that most frightened me while writing; I was haunted by God. The post Ghosts Who Walk Among Us: The Millions Interviews Claire Cronin appeared first on The Millions.

      8 min read

    • Article

      Divine Wake-up Call

      Nov 26, 2020

      Divine Wake-up Call
      5 min read

    • Article

      From vicar TO WICCA

      Nov 23, 2021

      Standing in the wooden pulpit dressed in my long black cassock, I smiled down at the congregation before me, but my heart was heavy. I had just finished preaching a sermon about forgiveness. I was hoping that when the time came, my flock would find i

      4 min read

    • Article

      GIRL Power

      Mar 17, 2020

      GIRL Power
      4 min read

    • Article

      Devil May Care

      Apr 8, 2019

      Devil May Care
      7 min read

    • Article

      My Wild Night At Weed Church

      Jul 31, 2019

      My Wild Night At Weed Church
      6 min read

    • Article

      Man of Science, Man of Faith

      Sep 22, 2017

      Man of Science, Man of Faith
      14 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Iľja Rákoš

      Dec 23, 2020

      I’d been out of the hospital following (let’s call it) treatment for COVID-19 about a month. My hospital ward of 50 patients had one oxygen concentrator. Despite my blood-oxygen saturation levels of 90%, that device wasn’t coming my way anytime soon.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Keeping the Faith

      Jul 23, 2019

      Keeping the Faith
      6 min read

    • Article

      Joss Lake

      Jun 16, 2021

      Joss Lake
      5 min read

    • Article

      Does Your Soul Need Therapy?

      Sep 1, 2019

      Does Your Soul Need Therapy?
      6 min read

    Reviews for The Wife Finder

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words