![]() At the beginning of the book she has arrived as a postulant, and by the end of the book she’s been at Brede fourteen years and is a fully professed nun. The central character, Philippa, comes to the monastery (which is what Brede Abbey is - a Benedictine monastery, which can be a community of either nuns or monks) later in life, after a successful career in some kind of government service. Like Groff, Godden sets her book entirely inside a community of nuns, in this case Benedictines in England. Unlike those other three books, this one is set in relatively contemporary times, opening in 1954. After I finished Matrix, I decided to pull out a novel I’d picked up on either a library book sale shelf or free cart at some point, In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden. ![]() Then recently, I read Lauren Groff’s novel Matrix, set in the 1100s. ![]() Back in January I read World Without End by Ken Follett (also set in the 1300s) one of the Pillars of the Earth series, in which a nun nurse introduces masks as a way to protect against the plague. In summer of 2020, I read The Corner That Held Them, Sylvia Townsend Warner’s black comedy set in the 1100s through the1300s at a convent. ![]() ![]() For some reason I’ve read a few books featuring nuns during the pandemic. ![]()
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