Joane Hall

The once-reknowned escape-artist and magician, Kandinsky, is now reduced to confounding the staff and inmates of his retirement home.

While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers.

Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.

Trois prêtres et leur gouvernante sont exilés sur Craggy Island, petite île au large des côtes irlandaises. Leur comportement, indigne de l'Église catholique, a conduit leurs supérieurs à leur infliger ce bannissement : le père Ted Crilly a détourné des dons récoltés par l'église ; le père Jack Hackett est un alcoolique obsédé par les femmes et le père Dougal McGuire est un simple d'esprit.