Not bad... but not a typical novel. Powers' "Morte D'Urban" had a driving storyline. This one just follows another priest and the people he comes across at various points of his life. The writing is pretty funny though. It follows Joe Hackett throughout his life - childhood, to young boy who will probably become a priest, to a seminarian who leans towards the contemplative (and thinking everyone else should do so as well), to a parish priest who has ditched notions of the contemplative.
Fr. Hackett in his 40s finally gets a curate. There's an interesting conversation between Fr. Hackett and the young Fr. Bill very shortly after the significant changes to the liturgy and the Church's mission have been implemented... Fr. Bill on the side of "opening up the windows" to the modern world.