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 »n of Paris, falls into bad company and, after a period in one of Paris's smartest brothels, becomes a successful madam. The story of her prison sentence, her conversion, and her agonizing work among women whose experiences outdid even her own is also the story of one woman's searing confrontation with her faith and, above all, herself.« less