Letter To Sister Benedicta by Rose Tremain

Letter To Sister Benedicta by Rose Tremain

Fat and fifty, educated only to be a wife and mother, Ruby Constad has reached a point of crisis. Her husband, Leon, lies in a nursing home after a stroke that has left him paralysed; her grown-up children are gone. In her anguish Ruby appeals for help to a half-remembered figure from her colonial Indian girlhood - Sister Benedicta.

The fact that Ruby Constad emerges so strong and devoid of self-pity makes her one of the most generous and complete of modern heroines * The Times *
An original talent clears the hurdle of a second novel with pathos and humour * Guardian *
Miss Tremain does something to restore my confidence in the vitality of the English novel.. Letter to Sister Benedicta should be seen as a triumph of the human spirit over the afflictions which beset us -- Auberon Waugh

Rose Tremain’s novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won several awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, was a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. It won the National Jewish Book Award in the US, the South Bank Sky Arts Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes.

www.rosetremain.co.uk

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ISBN 13	9780099284079
ISBN 10	0099284073
Title	Letter To Sister Benedicta
Author	Rose Tremain
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	1999-09-02
Number of pages	192
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