Obedience
by Jacqueline Yallop
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Edges of the text block lightly t
- ISBN 10
- 0857891014
- ISBN 13
- 9780857891013
- Seller
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Synopsis
Set in contemporary and World War II France, this is the story of Sister Bernard: her forbidden love, her uncertain faith, and her guilt- ridden past. A once -bustling convent in the South of France is closing, leaving behind three elderly nuns. Forced, for the first time, to confront the community that she betrayed decades ago, Sister Bernard relives her life during the war. At thirty, Sister Bernard can hear the voice of God-strident, furious, and personal. When a young Nazi soldier, a member of the German occupying forces, asks her to meet him in the church in secret one evening, she agrees. And so begins the horrifying and passionate love affair that will deafen the heavens and define her life, tempting her into duplicity. Obedience is a powerful exploration of one woman's struggle to reconcile her aching need to be loved with her fear of God's wrath.
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- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 175653
- Title
- Obedience
- Author
- Jacqueline Yallop
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Edges of the text block lightly t
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0857891014
- ISBN 13
- 9780857891013
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- 9780857891013 first editions firsts printings 1st ed. 823.92 nuns france fiction history german occupation 1940 1945 0857891014 convent rural young woman wartime full horror violence war nazi soldier
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