## Details * Title:: [[[The Pilgrimage]]] * Authors:: [[John Broderick]] * Tags:: #fiction * Read:: [[2026-04-19]] * Instagram :: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXULZaujkWk/ ## Editions - Edition:: [[McNally Editions]], 2025 - Original Copyright:: 1961 - Pages:: 224 ## Purchase * Bookshop.org:: https://bookshop.org/a/94437/9781946022950 ## Annotations I love when a novel feels like a revelation. The Pilgrimage is about the weight of the masks people wear to keep up appearances. Set in a small Irish town in the 1950s, it examines the power and hypocrisy of the Catholic Church, and the pervasive pressure-cooked perversion created in a society under its rule. It’s a mysterious thriller wrapped in social realism.  Broderick’s writing is simple and precise. The prose builds matter-of-factly, every word effortlessly in the right place — clean sentences doing quiet, devastating work.