![]() ![]() Away from the world, and yet at one with it, Philippa must learn to forgive and forget her past. Rumer Godden (19071998) was the author of more than sixty works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s literature, and is considered by many to be one of the foremost English language. ![]() But each crisis of heart and conscience is guided by the compassion and intelligence of the Abbess and by the Sisters' shared bond of faith and ritual. In this small community of fewer than one hundred women, she soon discovers all the human frailties: jealousy, love, despair. ![]() ' Bruised by tragedy, Philippa Talbot leaves behind a successful career with the civil service for a new calling: to join an enclosed. Peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and effort. Rumer Goddens 1969 novel, In This House of Brede, centers on a successful business woman, Philippa Talbot, who converts to Roman Catholicism and gives up her. By the author of Black Narcissus and The River 'Rumer Godden's novels have a timeless shimmer' GUARDIAN 'One hundred years after her birth, Rumer Godden's novels still pulse with life' MATTHEW DENNISON, TELEGRAPH 'Her craftsmanship is always sure' NEW YORK TIMES 'The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Rumer Godden's classic 1960s novel is a vivid portrait of a woman's encounter with faith as she enters an order of Benedictine nuns. Description for In This House of Brede Paperback. ![]()
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