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This is a list of fictional stories or nonfiction books where part of the novel takes place in a Monastery or Convent. Please add to this list and books you know with a monastic setting.
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message 1: by slauderdale (new)

slauderdale Redwall Abbey is explicitly monastic. And yet, it is essentially secular. And yet, it is literally an abbey with an order of brothers and sisters governed by an Abbot (or Abbess in other books), and novices. can't even begin to know what to do with all the other books in Brian Jacques' long series, but I figure that the first book at least, "Redwall," definitely fits this list.


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