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And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life
Jane Christmas
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Description for And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life
Paperback. Feisty memoir describing the classic religious dilemma: will she marry the man she loves or become a nun? Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; HRCX8; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 320.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
320g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745956442
SKU
V9780745956442
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Jane Christmas
Jane Christmas is an acclaimed Canadian writer of travel memoirs: Incontinent on the Continent (2009 - aging mother and daughter travel to Italy), and What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim (2007 - "equal parts Nora Ephron and Bill Bryson"; "relentlessly smarter, funnier and holier than thou"). She now lives in Devon in the UK.
Reviews for And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life
"Her style is equal parts Nora Ephron and Bill Bryson"
Quill & Quire
“Jane Christmas is, in a word, hilarious. She is definitely up there with Bill Bryson in the genre of funny travel writers."
Kingston-Waterloo Record
Overall, I’d say I liked this book. It was interesting to have an inside view of daily life in ... Read more
Quill & Quire
“Jane Christmas is, in a word, hilarious. She is definitely up there with Bill Bryson in the genre of funny travel writers."
Kingston-Waterloo Record
Overall, I’d say I liked this book. It was interesting to have an inside view of daily life in ... Read more