“Holy Fools”
by Joanne Harris
Published: January 2004
ISBN: 0060559128

(Updated: August 5, 2005.)

From the Publisher…

In the year 1605, a young widow, pregnant and alone, seeks sanctuary at the small Abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-mer on the island of Noirs Moustiers off the Brittany coast. After the birth of her daughter, she takes up the veil, and a new name, Soeur Auguste. But the peace she has found in re-mote isolation is shattered five years later by the events that follow the death of her kind benefactress, the Reverend Mother.

A light, moody read that I give a three out of five hearts on my “couldn’t wait to get back to it” scale.