And Then There Were Nuns

Adventures in a cloistered life

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Pub Date 21 Feb 2014 | Archive Date 31 Mar 2014

Description

When Colin asks Jane to marry him she joyfully accepts – but then asks him if he would mind waiting for a few months, maybe a year and a half, as she has always wondered if God was calling her to be a nun. Over the course of 18 months, in 2011-2012, she tests out this vocation in a series of religious houses, and we follow her journey and her wonderings. The religious houses she spends time in are based initially in Canada, but then on the Isle of Wight and finally North Yorkshire, and she meets a range of well-realised characters en route, finding both godliness and narrow minded prejudice and inhumanity in all places. What is God calling her to do? Superbly written, very funny, very evocative and very feisty.

When Colin asks Jane to marry him she joyfully accepts – but then asks him if he would mind waiting for a few months, maybe a year and a half, as she has always wondered if God was calling her to be...


Advance Praise

"Jane Christmas is, in a word, hilarious. She is definitely up there with Bill Bryson in the genre of funny travel writers." Kingston-Waterloo Record.

"Her style is equal parts Nora Ephron and Bill Bryson." Quill and Quire.
"A lovely, heartfelt tale. Get thee to a bookstore and buy it." A J Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically
"Jane Christmas's style is equal parts Nora Ephron and Bill Bryson." Quill and Quire

"Jane Christmas is, in a word, hilarious. She is definitely up there with Bill Bryson in the genre of funny travel writers." Kingston-Waterloo Record.

"Her style is equal parts Nora Ephron and Bill...

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