A Prize For Sister Catherine

By Kathleen Rowntree

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0552997323
• ISBN13: 9780552997324
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Corgi
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Political Parable

An excellent book. The anti-heroine is named Margaret -- one of her advisors helps her deepen her voice to make it more authoritative -- her approach to the convent is to privatise some of its enterprises, create divisions and a class structure, and to pretend to care about religion while really destroying the religious nature of the convent. Those that are displaced for to aid in her plans are even called scroungers, and some American nuns arrive from the Convent of Eternal Enterprise (Margaret is hoping for inward investment from them -- one of her supporters comments 'You really do plan to sell the convent!' if I recall correctly).This parody of Margaret Thatcher makes the book particularly interesting, but may not be recognised by those not familiar with British politics.