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At the age of twenty-one, Monica Baldwin, niece of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, entered one of the oldest and most strictly enclosed contemplative orders of the Roman Catholic Church. Twenty-eight years later, after a prolonged struggle with her vocation, she left the convent. But the world Monica had known in 1914 was very different to the world into which she emerged at the height of the Second World War. This is the account of one woman's two very different lives, with revealing descriptions of the world of a novice, the daily duties of a nun, and the spiritual aspects of convent life. Interwoven with these, as the author is confronted with fashions, politics and art totally unfamiliar to her, are the trials and tribulations of coping with a new and alien world.
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A sympathetically written and extraordinarily interesting account of one of the strangest and most disturbing experiences a modern woman has ever lived through --Daily Mail
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A story brilliantly told --Observer
A sympathetically written and extraordinarily interesting account of one of the strangest and most disturbing experiences a modern woman has ever lived through --Daily Mail
Monica Baldwin (1893 1975) was the niece of former UK Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who lived as a nun for 28 years before deciding to return to a normal life. She is the author of "The Called and the Chosen" and "Goose in the Jungle: A Flight Round the World with Digressions.""
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- PublisherUlverscroft Ltd
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1785411322
- ISBN 13 9781785411328
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages440
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