I’ve borrowed several books about the religious life from the library here (in Christchurch, New Zealand, where I am on a working holiday and writing retreat for three months). Those I love know my fascination with convents and monasteries; others might read more into my research. Well, more will be revealed in time.
Is there a memoir about being a nun in which the author remains a nun? The books I’ve read have all been (apart from Isabel Losada’s New Habits) from the POV of those who have decided that the monastic life is not for them. For Catherine Coldstream, she walks away but her beliefs and the ways of the Carmelite order at which she spent many years, remain, by her own admission, very much a part of her life. Her time at the monastery is obviously something she values and appears to miss and even yearn for still.
daphne lee 