Goodbye Curate

Chronicles of a Curate #3

by Fred Secombe

The continuing fictionalized memoirs of a young curate in the Welsh valleys. The third volume about the hazards and surprises of life in the small town of Pontywen. Fred Secombe won the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera Award for "Utopia Limited" in 1968.

Genres: Humor

224 pages, Hardcover

First published February 6, 1992

About the author

Secombe was born in Swansea in 1918 and ordained in 1942. The vicar of various parishes in Wales, and a Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral, he was also a founder of three Gilbert and Sullivan societies and won the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera Award for Utopia Ltd in 1968.

Reviews

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Curate Fred Secombe continues to enjoy his life and work in his Welsh parish of Pontywen. He marries the love of his life the village doctor, Eleanor and they both continue to make the best of what they have and what they are given. They both have a very lively sense of humor that it is a pleasure to step into their lives and walk alongside them for a while.

[Steven R. McEvoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This third book in the Chronicles of the Curate series is even funnier than the first two, in part because of all Fred has been through, you would expect better results. Yet it seems that anything that can go wrong does for Fred and his fiancée Eleanor. Life should be settling down into a pattern in the parish but with weddings, funerals and Christmas, who can imagine the events that will befall poor Fred. Laugh-out-loud funny, this book is worth picking up, either as the single volume or as the 3-in-one collection along with How Green Was My Curate and A Curate for All Seasons.