num_pages: 224
description: Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient, and eager to please, she 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.
language: English
title: Frost in May
titlecomplete: Frost in May (Virago Modern Classics)
genres: 20th Century, Classics, Boarding School, Novels, Womens, Religion, Historical Fiction, Fiction, School Stories, British Literature
ratings_count: 1990
series: Frost in May
publisher: Virago UK