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In This House of Brede (Troubadour Books) - Softcover

Godden, Rumer

 
9780708819098: In This House of Brede (Troubadour Books)

Synopsis

Philippa Talbot leaves her Civil Service career for a new calling - to join an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns. In this small community, each crisis is guided by the Abbess and the Sisters' shared bond of faith. It is here that Philippa must learn to forgive and forget the past. The story, with its personality clashes, power struggles and overwhelming humanity in both the pettiness and the depth of the characters, is absorbing, and yet this book is more than just a story - one woman's personal growth as she enters a monastic order and slowly comes to terms with leading a religious life.

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Book Description

Rumer Godden's classic 1960s novel is a vivid portrait of a woman's encounter with faith as she enters an order of Benedictine nuns.

From the Back Cover

'The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and effort.'

Bruised by tragedy, Philippa Talbot leaves a successful career in the civil service for a new calling. She joins an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns. In this small community of fewer than one hundred women, she soon discovers all the human frailties: jealousy, love, despair. But each crisis of heart and conscience is guided by the compassion and intelligence of the Abbess and by the Sisters' shared bond of faith and ritual. Away from the world, and yet at one with it, Philippa must learn to forgive and forget her past . . .

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