Mary Kenny
Superior Sisters
Nuns: A History of Convent Life
By Silvia Evangelisti
Oxford University Press 304pp £17.99 order from our bookshop
The life of a nun – in comparison to that of a wife – has many advantages. No cooking and cleaning; no skivvying at the kitchen sink or schlepping around the supermarket; none of the boring and interminable chores of running a household, starting with making lists, day after day after day, of what must be done. (I have left instructions for an inscription to be put on my grave: ‘She is at rest – she will never again push a trolley around Sainsbury’s.’)
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