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Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy
Five for Sorrow Ten for Joy
Author: Rumer Godden
In this splendid novel, Rumer Godden returns to the theme of the religious life, which has inspired some of her most successful novels. She now moves to the world of the French Cominican Sisters of Bethanie, who work among the whores, drug addicts, and vagrants of the great cities. The heroine is Lise, and English girl who, after the liberatio...  more »
ISBN: 334264
Publication Date: 1979
Pages: 207
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Publisher: The Viking Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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The tale of how a young woman goes from prostitution to the convent, where she finds her place in the world.


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