num_pages: 200
description: In this memoir Libby Purves recalls her strange Catholic childhood in convents around the world with stories of white-robed nuns amid the gilded temples of Bangkok, rations of beer for nine-year-olds after High Mass in France and unease in South Africa at the height of apartheid.
language: English
title: Holy Smoke
titlecomplete: Holy Smoke
ratings_count: 19
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton