A motley assortment of characters seek peace and salvation in this early masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns.
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Originally published in 1958, this funny, sad, and moving novel is about religion, sex, and the fight between good and evil.
And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean.
Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority.
And then things begin to change.
A new Bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered.
A motley assortment of characters seek peace and salvation in this early masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns
