Obedience

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In a convent in rural France, only three ageing nuns remain. Cloistered within her failing faith and her failing body, Sister Bernard navigates each day through the simple markers of domesticity. But when the convent is threatened with closure, the protective bonds of piety and routine are torn away, and Sister Bernard is forced to confront herself and her past - the memories of wartime disgrace; of a German soldiers' bet giving voice to a love that deafened the heavens; of the full horror of war and motherhood, and of a furious God who began to sulk. Honest and heartbreaking, Obedience explores how the human psyche can endure and survive even the most brutal events; but more so, it is about passion, the unquenchable desire for both physical love and spiritual love, and how in yearning for one, we often betray the other.

Author Bio

Jacqueline Yallop read English at Oxford and did her PhD in nineteenth century literature at Sheffield University. She has worked as the Curator for the John Ruskin Museum in Sheffield and writes on the Victorians. She is the author of the non-fiction work Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves and the novel Kissing Alice. She currently lives in France.