Not Straight Forward

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(Free-Press-Release.com) January 4, 2012 -- This is an absorbing and honest portrayal of a vulnerable Englishman, a homosexual Roman Catholic Priest and a Jungian analyst.

The author, Peter Bentley, is a highly intelligent man of letters and literary insights, but his life has been beset by emotional
turmoil. He was an over-enthusiastic Catholic convert and he rushed to confession incessantly. It was hardly surprising he joined the priesthood - and hardly surprising that he left it. Not Straight Forward is Peter's candid account of his life.

''I wrote Not Straight Forward as I felt the need to tell myself my story, as honestly as I could. Only after I inked the last word did it occur to me that the story of my circuitous spiritual journey as a Roman Catholic homosexual priest, of my struggle with male identity, of finding a place in society and meaning to my life may help someone else,'' says Peter, who still tries to be a good Catholic.

Not Straight Forward examines Peter's Life. Peter was a feminine gay who struggled to contain his sexual desires at the Brompton Oratory in London where he was often vaguely in love with some fellow priest. After the Oratory he went to the Jung institute in Zurich where he plunged into a language of dreams, of blinding lights and hallucinations of spiders, where he read and painted where he clung to his little dog as his best friend and he was lonely and marked out as different. Until, at last, aged 50, he met Werner…

His mother moved in elite circles. As a child she was the playmate of the future Queen of Spain, her godmother was Princess
Beatrice, the youngest child of Queen Victoria. But her world of royal connections was not that of his father's and the marriage
was rocky from the start. Peter's memories are littered with recognisable names. His father owned the renowned business of
Astley's pipes in London s smart Jermyn Street where Marlene Dietrich purchased her cigarette holders. He met Placido
Domingo, Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, Peggy Guggenheim who tried to seduce him and Harry Cipriani - who tried to
seduce his mother .

Publication Date: 22nd February 2012

Price: £9.99
ISBN: 9780956662019

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