Hints and tips:
...time as a teenage nun in the 1960s; and in fiction the theme of the female religious recluse has featured in novels from Antonia White’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age Frost in May (1933) to Sylvia Townsend...
...But when she kisses Morris Townsend, the penniless blade who has arrived in the Sloper drawing room, at New York’s Washington Square in the autumn of 1850, there is no hint of fires being fanned....
International Edition