Barbara M. (LadyExplicate) reviewed on 9/3/2007 + 111 more book reviews

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Debbie Macomber traces the lives of three young women who decide to become nuns, although each "hearing the call," perhaps had other personal reasons for the decision. We learn something of what it was like for them to live life as a nun in the period immediately before and after Vatican II. A cousin of Macomber's had been a nun and left her order, and one of these women is probably based on her. It turns out she had met two other women who had also left their orders. Although I'm not Catholic, I found the book fascinating, and the characters nicely drawn and very sympathetic. Nice read.

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