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'What a wonderful book! Now that I have finished it I want to read it again ... whatever you think about nuns, whatever your religious views or lack of them, I don't see how you can fail to be enriched by this book.' John Betjeman 'A sympathetically written and extraordinarily interesting account of one of the strangest and most disturbing experiences a modern woman ever lived through.' Daily Mail 'Witty, enlightening, entertaining.' Daily Express 'A story brilliantly told.' Observer 'Witty and intensely moving.' Sunday Times 'Works well. Amazing.' Daily Telegraph 'Straightforward, quiet and sincere. Profoundly interesting.' The Spectator 'The book describes in fascinating detail life in an enclosed order.' Irish Times Baldwin tells her story well, and with a great deal of dry wit ... she has a fine sense not only for the strangeness of her new world, but for the naivety of her own response to it. The Tablet The contemplative life did not suit her, but she is one of its liveliest and most accessible expositors The Tablet

'A story brilliantly told' - Observer 'A sympathetically written and extraordinarily interesting account of one of the strangest and most disturbing experiences a modern woman has ever lived through' - Daily Mail 'Whatever you think about nuns, whatever your religious views or lack of them, I don't see how you can fail to be enriched by this book' - John Betjeman 'Witty and intensely moving' - Sunday Times 'Straightforward, quiet and sincere. Profoundly interesting' -Spectator

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Monica Baldwin (1893--1975) was the niece of former UK Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who lived as a nun for 28 years before deciding to return to a normal life. She is the author of The Called and the Chosen and Goose in the Jungle: A Flight Round the World with Digressions.

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