Five for Sorrow Ten for Joy Author:Rumer Godden In this splendid novel Rumer Godden returns to the theme of religious life, which has inspired some of her most successful novels, including Black Narcissus and In This House of Brede. She now moves to the world of the French Dominican Sisters of B?tanie, who work among the whores, drug addicts, and vagrants of the great cities. — The heroine is... more » Lise, an English girl who, after the liberation of Paris, falls into bad company and becomes a successful madam. The story of her prison sentence, her conversion, and her agonizing work among women like herself is also the story of one woman's searing confrontation with her faith, and above all, herself.« less