Paul Harrington: My Conversion

I begin this review with a confession. I am obsessed with a TV program called Bride & Prejudice. Bride & Prejudice follows the engagement period of six couples whose parents are aggressively against their son or daughter’s relationship. The objections of each parent exist for a variety of reasons: total distrust of partners who have cheated in the past; a mother who is terrified by the prospect of her son loving a woman other than herself. The interactions are fascinating, and sometimes painful, to watch. But, of all the relationships depicted, the one which grips me most is that between a…