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[[:Category:Matt Woodcock|Matt Woodcock]] is enjoying life: successful journalist, happily married and a new dream home bought and heavily mortgaged. The only cloud on the horizon is their struggle to have children but they have faith in the UVF IVF treatment as it's early days yet. Then comes the funny turn Matt has on the way to a story one day. This takes him by surprise but the resulting clergy collar comes as a total shock. He's a normal bloke who always thought of himself as more pint than piety believing in a God who's happy for him to remain in the pews. Errrrm… whoops!
As a clergy spouse (as we're nattily known in the trade) who married a social worker and ended up with a vicar after a very similar process to Matt's, I picked this book up with a certain amount of curiosity. I was half expecting a 'journalist saw the light and became transformed' type tale but thank goodness, it's nothing like that! Matt feels as much surprise and shock as anyone that he ended up on the altar side of the pulpit, making the whole book very compelling as well as entertaining.
