In This House of Brede (Loyola Classics) - Softcover

Rumer Godden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0829421289 ISBN 13: 9780829421286

Publisher: Loyola University Press,U.S., 2005

Synopsis

Phillippa Talbot leaves her life among the London elite to join a cloistered Benedictine community in this insightful portrait of religious life. Reissue.

About this title

About the Author

Rumer Godden (1907&;98) was born in England, began writing fiction as an adult living in India, and continued a successful writing career after moving back to England. She is the author of many novels , including In This House of Brede, Black Narcissus, The River, and Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy.

From the Back Cover

A novel of sensitive dedication. The Atlantic Monthly

Rumer Godden deals precisely with the theme of the religious life . . . as representing the heart of holiness of the Church. It is at once a life of great peace and often equally intense struggle. America magazine

This extraordinarily sensitive and insightful portrait of religious life centers on Philippa 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Loyola University Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0829421289
• ISBN 13: 9780829421286
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Phyllis Tickle
• Number of pages: 368