Letter to Sister Benedicta
by:
Rose Tremain (author)
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 paralyzed; her grown-up children are gone. In her anguish Ruby appeals for help to a half-remembered figure from her...
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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 paralyzed; her grown-up children are gone. In her anguish Ruby appeals for help to a half-remembered figure from her colonial Indigenous girlhood — Sister Benedicta. Gradually the events leading up to Leon’s stroke are revealed and a woman emerges whose capacity to love, hope and understand are far greater than she realizes.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780099284079 (0099284073)
ASIN: 0099284073
Publish date: 2009-02-02
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Nearly 200 pages of predominantly prose, with little dialogue and white space, and yet, I could hardly put the book down. Different to the other Rose Tremain's I've read & loved (particularly The Colour and Music & Silence), the Letters to Sister Benedicta trace the inner rambles of Ruby's fractur...
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