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When their father runs off with another woman, Isobel and Caro are left to their mother, Iris, who relieves her frustration with bouts of fury directed at her daughters. Bewildered and hurt by their mother's lack of affection, the girls turn inward for support, erecting a fence of fierce mutual loyalty against the outside world.
Dispatched to a convent boarding school, the sisters find the discipline harsh and the mysteries of religion alien. Although this community of women is rife with petty rivalries and unhealthy passions, they also discover a love and security lacking at home, until the arrival of their cousin Ursula.
Exotic, beautiful, and obedient, Ursula is everything the sisters are not. Abandoned by her own mother, Ursula insinuates herself into Iris's affections and heightens an already tense family situation. At the convent, Ursula's knowing gaze provokes nuns and girls alike. She perpetrates sly tricks everywhere and always escapes punishment. Pushed to the limit, Isobel decides to exact her own revenge.
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'Roe's novel offers a powerful evocation of sisterly bonds, the agonies of parental remarriage, and life in the closed environment of a convent in the 1940s, while maintaining ... an absorbing plot.' The Sunday Times
[A] novel of great and civilised sensibility, and a real pleasure to read (Fay Weldon, Mail on Sunday)
This convincingly evoked detail provides the background for a tightly controlled plot, whose denouement is concealed until the last possible moment (The Times)
The writing evokes the claustrophobia of convent life where sexual activity can only be spoken of in relation to the Sixth Commandment . . . The evocative descriptions of landscape and the atmospheric touches are well done (Times Literary Supplement)
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The story of two sisters whose monstrous mother marries again and sends them away to a convent boarding school.
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