Overview

When prize-winning reporter Sybilla Sumner checks into a monastery for a silent retreat, romance is the last thing on her mind. She plans to spend five meditative days surrounded by the beauty of the Shenandoah Valley--and apart from her famous husband and their crumbling marriage. James Fitzmaurice-Kelly isn't looking for romance either. He's the Archbishop of Dublin, and has maintained a vow of celibacy for decades--even as he's publicly questioned the church's teachings. But as Sybilla and Fitz continue silently crossing paths, an undeniable charge builds between them, one that could see them abandoning their vows. In this sophisticated, sexy, and soulful love story, novelist Sally Quinn explores the boundary between flesh and spirit, restraint and ecstasy, and asks what we're willing to sacrifice in the name of passion.

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""With her shrewd eye and large heart, Sally Quinn has always brought a novelist's sensibility to her work as one of the great chroniclers of power and of faith in America. Tireless and gifted, curious and empathetic, she is always worth reading, for she writes of the things that matter most: sin and grace, appetite and love, fear and hope."" --JON MEACHAM, political speechwriter and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Recommended by Adriana Trigiani on Jenna Bush Hager's Open Book with Jenna podcast A Town & Country Must-Read Book of Summer 2025 ""Silent Retreat is a bodice ripper with a fillip of Roman Catholic ritual: a novice ripper."" --AIR MAIL ""An unholy brew of lust and faith."" --Kirkus Reviews ""Half romance, half theological meditation. . . . Quinn's novel addresses big questions of faith and meaning, but it's also a lot of fun."" --Washingtonian

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Sally Quinn is a longtime journalist at the Washington Post, a bestselling novelist, and a Washington, DC insider. Her religion website ""On Faith"" ran in the Washington Post for seven years. She is the author of We're Going to Make You a Star, Regrets Only, Happy Endings, The Party, and Finding Magic. She lives and works in Georgetown.

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