Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy (Loyola Classics Series)
Contributors: Joan Chittister (Introduction)
Publisher: Loyola Press
Published: February 16, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780829424737
Subjects: Christian - General; Psychological; Fiction; Fiction - Religious; Catholics; Monastic and religious life of women; Nuns
Description: Lise Fanshawe, a prostitute and brothel manager in post-World War II Paris, finds God while serving time in prison for murder and joins an order of Catholic nuns made up of women like her, leading her to an enlightening encounter with people from her past.