And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a cloistered life
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Overview
Bestselling author Jane Christmas resolves to enter a convent to find out whether she is, as she puts it, nun material. She also wants to understand why she has felt and avoided a siren call to religious life for so long. But just when she convinces herself to take the plunge, her longterm partner suddenly proposes marriage. Determined not to sideline her monastic dreams any longer, Christmas puts her engagement on the back burner and sets off on an extraordinary year-long adventure to four convents. With her trademark humour, verve and feistiness, Christmas relates how she revels in and at times chafes and rails against the silent, simple existence she has sought all of her life. When an unexpected and searing memory rears up, she is forced to confront both her past and her future.
Feisty memoir describing the classic religious dilemma: will she marry the man she loves or become a nun. Jane Christmas (Incontinent on the Continent, What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim) tests her ‘vocation’ for 18 months, then has to decide.
Contents
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( 1 )
In the Beginning, There Was a Proposal 1
( 2 )
At a Crossroads 21
The Sisterhood of St. John the Divine
( 3 )
Battling Demons 85
Quarr Abbey
( 4 )
An Invalid Religion 131
St. Cecilia’s Abbey
( 5 )
The Cloistered Castle 163
Order of the Holy Paraclete
( 6 )
The Winter Desert 215
Order of the Holy Paraclete
( 7 )
When Silence Knocks 257
Order of the Holy Paraclete
Epilogue 279
Acknowledgements 291
"A lovely, heartfelt tale. Get thee to a bookstore and buy it." A . J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically
"Jane Christmas’s style is equal parts Nora Ephron and Bill Bryson" Quill & Quire
Product Details
- Title : And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a cloistered life
- Author: Christmas, Jane
- Publisher: Lion Books
- Publication Date: 2014
- ISBN: 9780745957975