Five for Sorrow Ten for Joy - Godden, Rumer
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As she moved away towards the chapel a puff of wind caught her veil, blowing it back, and they saw she had a scar on her left cheek . . . The Sisters of Béthanie, a French order of Dominican nuns, dedicate themselves to caring for those on the margins of society. But for Soeur Marie Lise, the struggles of these outcast women are entwined with her own troubled past. Once she was Elizabeth Fanshawe, a spirited English girl in postwar Paris, who found herself employed at one of the city's smartest brothels and rose to become the notorious and successful madam known as La Balafrée - the Scarred…mehr

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As she moved away towards the chapel a puff of wind caught her veil, blowing it back, and they saw she had a scar on her left cheek . . . The Sisters of Béthanie, a French order of Dominican nuns, dedicate themselves to caring for those on the margins of society. But for Soeur Marie Lise, the struggles of these outcast women are entwined with her own troubled past. Once she was Elizabeth Fanshawe, a spirited English girl in postwar Paris, who found herself employed at one of the city's smartest brothels and rose to become the notorious and successful madam known as La Balafrée - the Scarred One. Through Lise's vivid experience of prison, conversion and redemption, Rumer Godden weaves a deeply moving and clear-sighted tale of darkness and hope. But even as Lise makes peace with her past, its legacy is threatening to strike at the heart of the convent itself. 'One of our best and most captivating novelists' PHILIP HENSHER '[Godden's] distinctive, poised and unsentimental books have never lost a shred of their almost hypnotic appeal' ROSIE THOMAS 'A dramatic story of manipulation, violence, double-dealing and redemption' FINANCIAL TIMES
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Autorenporträt
Rumer Godden (1907-1998) was the acclaimed author of over sixty works of fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. Born in England, she and her siblings grew up in Narayanganj, India, and she later spent many years living in Kolkata and Kashmir. Several of her novels were made into films, including Black Narcissus, The Greengage Summer and The River, which was filmed by Jean Renoir. She was appointed OBE in 1993.