“A sensitive tribute novel.” —The Atlantic Magazine “Rumer Godden deals specifically with the theme of religious life… as symbolising the Church’s ‘heart of holiness.'” It’s a life of immense peace and, more often than not, equally deep strife.” —From the magazine America Philippa Talbot, a highly successful professional woman who leaves her life among the London elite to join a cloistered Benedictine monastery, is the focus of this unusually compassionate and insightful picture of convent life.
