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The novel is a portrait of religious life in England that centers on Philippa Talbot, a highly successful professional woman and self-described free-thinker and renegade, who leaves her comfortable life among the London elite to join a cloistered Benedictine community of contemplative Roman Catholic nuns. It begins in 1954, as Philippa enters ...
- Rumer Godden
- 1969
A well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun.
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- Gary Trad
In This House of Brede is primarily the story of Philippa Talbot, an extremely successful businesswoman and leader, a widow in her 40s who startlingly gives it all up to become a Benedictine nun. The challenges she faces as a postulant detail for the lay reader just how difficult it is to leave the active "outside" world to start a new life in a reflective order.
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Sep 17, 2012 · In this house of Brede by Godden, Rumer, 1907-Publication date 1969 Topics Monastic and religious life of women, Catholic women, Nuns Publisher New York, Viking Press
May 4, 2020 · In this house of Brede by Godden, Rumer, 1907-1998. Publication date 1969 Topics
Feb 1, 2005 · This extraordinarily sensitive and insightful portrait of religious life centers on Philippa Talbot, a highly successful professional woman who leaves her life among the London elite to join a cloistered Benedictine community. In This House of Brede was the basis of a 1975 made-for-television film starring Diana Rigg.
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Dec 13, 2016 · In This House of Brede. : Rumer Godden. Open Road Media, Dec 13, 2016 - Fiction - 506 pages. Following World War II, a British widow joins a Benedictine monastery in this poignant New York Times bestseller from the author of Black Narcissus. For most of her adult life, Philippa Talbot has been a successful British professional.
