I leap over the wall. [sound recording]
Baldwin, Monica2015
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On her 21st birthday Monica Baldwin - daughter of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin - entered one of the oldest and moststrictly enclosed contemplative orders of the Roman Catholic Church. Twenty-eight years later, having realized she did not have a true vocation for the life of a nun, she obtained a special rescript from Rome and left the convent. But the world Monica had known and forsaken in 1914 was very different to the world she found when she emerged into it at the height of the Second World War. This book is the fascinating story of one woman's two very different lives, with lucid descriptions of the world of a novice, the duties of a nun's day, and the spiritual aspects of convent life. These are interwoven with the trials and tribulations of life in a new and alien world, as the author is confronted by fashions, art, interventions, and politics that are totally unfamiliar to her.
Main title:
I leap over the wall. [sound recording] / Monica Baldwin.
Author:
Edition:
Unabridged edition.
Imprint:
Oxford : Soundings Audio Books, 2015.
Collation:
12 CDs (14 hr.) : digital, stereo
Notes:
Compact discs.
Performers:
Read by Anne Dover.
ISBN:
9781407959351 (CDs)
Dewey class:
271.9002920.BALD920BAL920271
LC class:
BX4210
Local class:
PC BAL
Language:
English
BRN:
1372461
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