Chokecherry

June M. Blurton is a retired speech pathologist.

When Becky Hastings, a young librarian in Saskatoon, marries an Anglican
minister, she knows she has none of the attributes associated with a
minister’s wife. She cannot quilt, bake heavenly light pies for Church
bazaars, or play the organ; she was not even raised as an Anglican.

Becky and her husband end up in a small northern Saskatchewan community
that is without running water, indoor toilets, and electricity. The
parish consists of five outlying churches accessed by often impassable
roads. Into the minister’s house flows a constant stream of uninvited
parishioners, people with strange and wonderful quirks.

This tightly written and very funny novel was penned by the wife of a
clergyman.