Katie Hanna’s Reviews > Gentian Hill > Status Update

I don't believe this author is aware of the concept of a bishop

Reading about old English Christmas customs is so fascinating

Look, if they had been friends since childhood or he had been in love with her his whole life, I would mayyyyyyyyyyybe accept this. But you don't meet a random strange woman, find out she's a Carmelite novice, and decide ON THE SPOT that you are going to pressure her into marrying you instead. The hubris. Apart from everything else, the bleedin' HUBRIS

Why is this book so white-knuckle obsessed with the idea that desertion is Bad

(I know this was the aftermath of WW2, but come on)

I will forgive your demented moral compass because you're just so good at describing Gregorian chant, darn it!!!

See, this is ACTUALLY how you tell a story with a dispossessed and ruined Abbey in it, instead of just using it as romantic set-dressing

Title drop!!!

Fourteen year old me would have eaten this book UP

(thirty-one year old me is still relishing it quite a bit, for the record)

Say what you will about those mid-twentieth century British authors, but they knew how to write a Description.