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    And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life
    And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life
    And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life
    Audiobook9 hours

    And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life

    Written by Jane Christmas

    Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley

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    About this audiobook

    Jane Christmas takes a decidedly unconventional journey to find out whether she is, as she puts it, "nun material". This is no carefree adventure. The call toward a religious vocation has beckoned Jane since she was a teenager, and now in her fifties she decides to explore it in earnest. Meanwhile, her long-term partner Colin, previously disinterested in marriage, springs a surprise marriage proposal on her unaware of what she is about to tell him. Jane, however, decides not to allow her monastic dreams to be interrupted. She sets off on an extraordinary and intense year-plus journey that takes her to four religious communities—one in Canada and three in the UK—and in the course of her immersion provides a seldom-seen glimpse inside modern cloistered life. The book lacks none of the bursts of candor or unrestrained humor that have made her books so popular and relatable (this one is sure to ruffle a few starched clerical collars), but And Then There Were Nuns comes with a darker side as the author comes to terms with a traumatic event from her past.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPost Hypnotic Press
    Release dateJan 3, 2015
    ISBN9781927817711
    And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life
    Author

    Jane Christmas

    JANE CHRISTMAS is the author of several bestselling books, including What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim, about her mid-life pilgrimage along Spain’s famed Camino trail; Incontinent on the Continent, about a six-week road trip through Italy with her elderly and opinionated mother in the hopes of finding a rapprochement in their relationship; as well as And Then There Were Nuns, which chronicles Jane’s discernment about entering religious life, and was a finalist for the 2014 Leacock Memorial Award for Humour. She has been published in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal and Germany. Born and raised in Canada, Jane Christmas is the mother of three wonderful adults and the ex-wife of two kind-hearted husbands. In 2012, she moved to the UK, where she lives in southwest England with her current husband.

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    • 4/5
      Enjoyable book. Insightful to life at a convent.
    • 4/5
      Much better than her other books. She’ has stopped whining. An interesting story, mostly memoir.
    • 5/5
      Well written, engaging. A deeply honest book about one woman's journey to find peace following the trauma of rape, and a fascinating behind the scenes look at life in religious orders. I felt as though I was there.