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Impossible saints

Michele Roberts

1997308 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1997
first published
  • 1997LITTLE, BROWN · 308 pagesISBN 9780316639576
  • 1998Ecco Press · ENGISBN 9780880015974
  • 1999Harcourt Brace · 308 pages · ENGISBN 9780156006590

A novel on our civilization's earliest liberated women, female saints. The heroine is St. Josephine, a not-so-saintly noblewoman who becomes a nun to avoid marriage, which would entail being told what to do by a man.

How it reads

Character focusSmall ensemble
CommitmentQuick escape

When and where

Reading situationCommuteWaiting
ThemesFamily
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