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| AUTHOR: | Rumer Godden |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Viking Pr |
| ISBN: | 0670317012 |
| TYPE: | Catholics, Fiction, France, Monastic and religious life of, Monastic and religious life of women, Nuns |
| MEDIA: | Hardcover |
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Customer Reviews of Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy: A Novel
A very fine novel that should be in print I too am sorry this book is not currently available. The story is darker and less "easy" than Godden's luminous IN THIS HOUSE OF BREDE -- the main character becomes a madam and a convict -- but the themes of religious faith and redemption are the same and are beautifully rendered.
It's many years since I read this and still it haunts me
The title refers to the Rosary which the main character can not escape - or the child in whose hand she first saw it. The Catholic imagery and ritual is pervasive but with enough explaination for a reader who is not familar with it.
From being a driver in the armed forces at the liberation of Paris at the end of the war Liz could not have seen the path her life would take.
Rumer Godden paints vivd picture of the times and places she describes from the brothel to the prison and finally to the convent where she finds her peace in the orders' work with prisioners.
It is many years since I last read this book and yet the images from it and the character stay in my memory still. The work may not be quite to the standard of "In this house of Brede" but it is still a brilliant story and very well crafted. I am very sad to see it is no longer in print.