We Too Shall Be Mothers
By (Author) Sallie Muirden
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Harper Perennial
28th March 2001
Australia
Tertiary Education
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
176
Width 133mm, Height 206mm, Spine 17mm
228g
Set in France in the late 1700s, this is the story of a young novice nun called Marie-France. She is a modern woman for her time, at odds with her vocation, and we travel with her as she constantly struggles with spiritual, existential and sexual crises.
Sallie Muirden is a poet and novelist. Her first novel, REVELATIONS OF A SPANISH INFANTA, won the 1996 HarperCollins Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the New South Wales Literary Awards for Fiction. Her second novel, WE TOO SHALL BE MOTHERS, was published in 2001. Sallie lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children.