With humor and opinions aplenty, a woman embarks on an unconventional
quest to see if she is meant to be a nun.
Just as Jane Christmas decides to enter a convent in mid-life to find
out whether she is "nun material", her long-term partner Colin, suddenly
springs a marriage proposal on her. Determined not to let her monastic
dreams be sidelined, Christmas puts her engagement on hold and embarks
on an extraordinary year long adventure to four convents--one in Canada
and three in the UK. In these communities of cloistered nuns and monks,
she shares--and at times chafes and rails against--the silent, simple
existence she has sought all of her life. Christmas takes this spiritual
quest seriously, but her story is full of the candid insights, humorous
social faux pas, profane outbursts, and epiphanies that make her books
so relatable and popular. And Then There Were Nuns offers a
seldom-seen look inside modern cloistered life, and it is sure to ruffle
more than a few starched collars among the ecclesiastical set.