Bestselling author Jane Christmas resolves to enter a convent to find
out whether she is, as she puts it, "nun material". She also wants to
understand why she has felt - and avoided - a siren call to religious
life for so long. But just when she convinces herself to take the
plunge, her longterm partner suddenly proposes marriage. Determined not
to sideline her monastic dreams any longer, Christmas puts her
engagement on the back burner and sets off on an extraordinary year-long
adventure to four convents. With her trademark humour, verve and
feistiness, Christmas relates how she revels in - and at times chafes
and rails against - the silent, simple existence she has sought all of
her life. When an unexpected and searing memory rears up, she is forced
to confront both her past and her future.