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Book Review of Body and Soul

Body and Soul
Body and Soul
Author: Marcelle Bernstein
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
reviewed on
Helpful Score: 2


A very interesting story about a nun who entered a strict contemplative order as a teenager and finds her faith lacking thirteen years later. When her brother dies, leaving behind a near-bankrupt family business and a pregnant wife, Sister Gabriel is forced to leave the convent temporarily and do battle with investment bankers, shifty managers, her depressed sister-in-law, her own spiritual crisis and belated sexual awakening. The basis for a wonderful miniseries starring Kristin Scott-Thomas.