With humor and opinions aplenty, a woman embarks on an unconventional quest to see if she is meant to be a nun. Just as Jane Christmas decides to enter a convent in mid-life to find out whether she is?nun material", her long-term partner Colin, suddenly springs a marriage proposal on her. Determined not to let her monastic dreams be sidelined, Christmas puts her engagement on hold and embarks on an extraordinary year long adventure to four convents?one in Canada and three in the UK. In these communities of cloistered nuns and monks, she shares?and at times chafes and rails.
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ISBN:9781553658009 (html)
ISBN:1553658000 (html)
Physical Description:remote 1 online resource.
Publisher:Vancouver, British Columbia :Greystone Books,2013.
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Title Page; Copyright; Epigraph; Contents; 1: In the Beginning, There Was a Proposal; 2: At a Crossroads; 3: Battling Demons; 4: An Invalid Religion; 5: The Cloistered Castle; 6: The Winter Desert; 7: When Silence Knocks; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Also by Jane Christmas.
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