Smuggling Donkeys — David Helwig

Abandoned by his wife (for spirituality and yoga, she says), a retired teacher surviving a hard winter on memory and jokes finds that life still has surprises in store for him. Including an attractive former student and an empty old church that he's turned into a theatre. As Ingrid Ruthig of Canadian Notes & Queries wrote, `Smuggling Donkeys lacks nothing in largeness of thought or spirit'.