"This extraodinarily senstitive and insightful portrait of religious life centers on Phillippa Talbot, a highly successful professional woman who leaves her life among the London elite to join a cloistered Benedictine community. In this gripping narrative of the crises surrounding the ancient Brede abbey, Rumer Godden penetrates to the mysterious, inner heart of a religious community- a place of complexity and conflict, as well as joy and love. It is a place where Philippa, to her own surprise and her friends' astonishment, finds her life by losing it."
"Een Engelse weduwe heeft in 1954 een goede baan bij de overheid, maar tot verbazing van haar omgeving besluit ze non te worden."
"Novel about Benedictine nuns."
"Set in England, this is a novel about a successful career woman in her forties who renounces the world to enter Brede monastery, a cloistered order of English Benedictine nuns and what happens to her thereafter."@en
"Set in England, this is a novel about a successful career woman in her forties who renounces the world to enter Brede monastery, a cloistered order of English Benedictine nuns and what happens to her thereafter."
"Philippa Talbot leaves the Civil Service to join an enclosed order of Benedictine Nuns. In this small community of just under 100 women, Philippa discovers all the human frailties - of jealousy, love and despair. Away from the world, yet at one with the world, Philippa must learn to forgive and forget the past..."