‘Evocative’ Sarah Perry**‘Immersive’ Katherine May‘Profoundly moving’ Mark HaddonDiscover Catherine Coldstream’s compelling account of life as a nun in the 1990s, and the dramatic events which led to her flight from the monastery.**After the shock of her father’s death, and with the rest of her family scattered, Catherine was left grieving and alone at twenty-four. A search for meaning led her to the nuns of Akenside Priory.Here she fo...

**Brought to you by Penguin.An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery**Cloistered takes the reader deep into the hidden world of a traditional Carmelite monastery as it approaches the third Millennium and tells the story of an intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity and obedience.Finding an apparently perfect world at Akenside Priory, and a haven after the loss of her father, Ca...