Product Description: Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household confines her and forms a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world...read more

Betrayed by an actor, Clara Batchelor turns to Archie Hughes-Follet for consolation despite the fact that she had broken off their engagement four years earlier

Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become only those the school permits. Her only deviation from total obedience is the passionate friendships she makes.Convent life is perfectly captured - the smell of beeswax and incense; the petty cruelties of the nuns; the eccentricities of Nanda's school friends.

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A small inn in Provence serves as the backdrop for a story of lost love and regret

Product Description: Book by ANTONIA WHITE

The collected diaries of the actress and author of Frost in May describes her attempts to cure her chronic suffering with psychoanalysis, her sexual adventures, her three marriages, and her love affairs with Bertrand Russell and Emma Goldman.

Product Description: Book by ANTONIA WHITE

Product Description: Contains the letters between Antonia White - a lapsed Catholic - and a former Jesuit novice. Although Antonia White returned to Church, these letters record the conflicts which preceded and followed this reconversion. They also chart the unfolding of an intimate relationship between them...read more