And Then There Were Nuns
Aug 2013 · Greystone Books
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"The best kind of memoir, revealing, refreshing, and reflective enough to make readers turn many of the questions on themselves." — Booklist (starred review)
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 against—the silent, simple existence she has sought all of her life. Christmas takes this spiritual quest seriously, but her story is full of the candid insights, humorous social faux pas, profane outbursts, and epiphanies that make her books so relatable and popular. And Then There Were Nuns offers a seldom-seen look inside modern cloistered life, and it is sure to ruffle more than a few starched collars among the ecclesiastical set.
"A lovely, heartfelt tale. Get thee to a bookstore and buy it." —A. J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically
"In fluid and often playful prose, she introduces women and men (she spent a week at a monastery on the Isle of Wight) who have devoted their lives to prayer, including a skydiving 90-year-old nun." — Maclean's
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 against—the silent, simple existence she has sought all of her life. Christmas takes this spiritual quest seriously, but her story is full of the candid insights, humorous social faux pas, profane outbursts, and epiphanies that make her books so relatable and popular. And Then There Were Nuns offers a seldom-seen look inside modern cloistered life, and it is sure to ruffle more than a few starched collars among the ecclesiastical set.
"A lovely, heartfelt tale. Get thee to a bookstore and buy it." —A. J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically
"In fluid and often playful prose, she introduces women and men (she spent a week at a monastery on the Isle of Wight) who have devoted their lives to prayer, including a skydiving 90-year-old nun." — Maclean's
"The best kind of memoir, revealing, refreshing, and reflective enough to make readers turn many of the questions on themselves." — Booklist (starred review)
With humor and opinions aplenty, a woman embarks on an unconventional quest to see if she is meant to be a nun.
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October 1, 2016
A trite travel through some of the more esthetically pleasing monestaries under the guise of spiituality.
Lala Velazquez
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April 20, 2016
I loved this book. Her writing pulls you in to the story as if you were chatting face to face about things.
About the author
Jane Christmas is the author of Incontinent on the Continent, What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim, and The Pelee Project. She has three grown children and now lives in London, England.
Jane Christmas is the author of Incontinent on the Continent, What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim, and The Pelee Project. She has three grown children and now lives in London, England.
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