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1982, trade paperback edition (this title was originally published in 1933), Dial Press, NY. 223 pages. Highly praised novel about young girls and nuns interacting in a convent school. "Semi-miraculous--a work of art."
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Nanda Gray, daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when in 1908 she goes to the Convent of the Five Wounds. Quick–witted, resilient, and enthusiastic, she eagerly adapts to this cloistered world, learning rigid conformity and subjection to authority. Passionate friendships are the only deviation from her total obedience. Convent life — the smell of beeswax and incense, the petty cruelty of the nuns, the glamour and eccentricity of Nanda's friends — is perfectly captured by Antonia White.
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Antonia White was born in 1899 and educated at in London at St. Paul's and RADA. She worked as a journalist and in the Foreign Office.
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- PublisherDial Press
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 080372697X
- ISBN 13 9780803726970
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages220
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. First Thus. New York, NY, Dial Press, 1980. First thus. 8vo. Paperback with pictorial cover, 211 pp. The Convent of the Five Wounds, where Nanda Grey is sent when she is nine, is on the edge of London; but in 1908 it is a world unto itself. For the young girls receiving a Catholic education behind its walls, religion is a nationality, conformity, an entire way of life. In this intense, troubled atmosphere, passionate friendships are the only deviation. Nanda is thirteen, a normal, quick-witted, spirited girl, when, catastrophically, she breaks the rules and pays too large a price for her transgression. Vivid and gripping! Cover has very slight shelf wear. New, unread condition. Seller Inventory # 020210
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