I Leap Over the Wall, Monica Baldwin
I Leap Over the Wall, Monica Baldwin
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I Leap Over the Wall
A Return to the World after 28 Years in a Convent

Author: Monica Baldwin

Narrator: Anne Dover

Unabridged: 12 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 12/01/2015

Synopsis

At the age of 21, Monica Baldwin – the niece of Stanley Baldwin – entered one of the most strictly enclosed contemplative orders of the Roman Catholic Church. At the age of 48, and after struggling with her vocation for many years, she left the convent. But the world Monica had known and forsaken in 1914 was very different to the world into which she emerged at the height of the Second World War. This is the fascinating account of one woman’s two very different lives, with revealing descriptions of the world of a novice. Interwoven with these are the trials and tribulations of coping with a new and alien world, as the author is confronted with fashions, interventions, politics and art totally unfamiliar to her.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sonia

I felt terribly sad when I read this book. Monica Baldwin never criticizes the Convent where she spent her entire youth. She never utters a word about her reasons for leaving the Convent, there is utter restraint in her book. Perhaps it had nothing to do with the Convent and everything to do with he......more

Goodreads review by Susanne

Monica Baldwin writes about her experience of exiting an enclosed convent in 1941, after twenty-eight years. Life in the middle of war-torn England couldnt have been more different than the world as she knew it in 1914. No news of the progressing world enters the convent and she stepped out in a rad......more

Goodreads review by Teamhair

This is an autobiographical novel covering the first couple of years after Baldwin left an enclosed order during WW2. There are interesting (brief) insights into the life of enclosed orders pre-Vatican 2. However, for the most part the story is fairly hum-drum and dull. Baldwin refers to her Uncle,......more

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