num_pages: 432
description: At forty-two, Philippa Talbot renounces a successful career to enter an enclosed order of British Benedictine Nuns.The communal strength of the sisters - each alike in faith and ritual, all prone to such human frailties as jealousy, envy, love and despair, and every one full of surprises - guided by the intelligent compassion of their Abbess, overcomes many crises of the heart and conscience that mushroom in a small, tight world of ninety women.Hidden from the common view, Philippa reaches her Calvary - in the need to forgive and forget the past ....
language: English
title: In This House of Brede
titlecomplete: In This House of Brede
genres: Fiction, Religion, Catholic, British Literature, Spirituality, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction, Christian, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 5838
places: London, England
publisher: Macmillan