num_pages: 208
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: Religion and Roots : A Personal Memoir
titlecomplete: Holy Smoke: Religion and Roots : A Personal Memoir
ratings_count: 19
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton