Angeline is a read that has everything: place, characters, and social issues, all delivered by the author in a way that never even verges on becoming a polemic. She needs to be relieved of the burdens she carries from her past, and the renegade nuns are the ones to get her started. The place she finds them in is a balm to her soul. The characters Angeline encounters are quirky and wise. Yet as Lynley and Havers wind their way through Keldales dark labyrinth of secret scandals and. Light of the Sea 'convent' will definitely provide that. 'The Inspector Lynley Mysteries' A Great Deliverance (TV Episode 2001) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. A nun called Sister Angeline joins them, having been sent there by a Mother Superior who knows that the radical alteration in Angeline's preferred lifestyle of silence, contemplation, bodily punishment, and prayer needs some serious changes. No matter to the members of the renegade convent, which houses itself in a collection of yurts and offers Sunday services to the people of the island. On this island she places an avant-garde religious order of nuns who have been summarily excommunicated by the Pope for various feminist infractions. In her second novel, she masterfully creates an island in the Pacific Northwest that jumps off the page and begs to be visited. "I love novels that bring a place to life and in this Anna Quinn does not disappoint.
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