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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is a freebie meaning we have to come up with our own topic. My list contains books I’ve read that feature characters in holy orders, e.g. priests, monks, nuns, etc. Links from each title will take you to my review.
- The Sea Road West by Sally Rena – Trouble begins when a new young priest, Father James, arrives in a remote Scottish village
- For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie – The story of two 15th century female mystics – Margery Kempe and anchoress, Julian of Norwich
- Sister Rosa’s Rebellion by Carolyn Hughes – 1363. When Mother Angelica, prioress of Northwick Priory, dies, many nuns presume Sister Rosa will take her place. But Sister Evangelina, Angelica’s niece, believes the position is hers by right and sets out to ensure it is
- My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor – Based on the true story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty who, along with others, risked his life to smuggle thousands of Jews and escaped Allied prisoners out of Italy during WW2.
- The Second Sleep by Robert Harris – In 1468, dedicated young priest, Christopher Fairfax finds everything he’s been taught to believe – and has preached to others – is turned upside down by the discovery of a book containing an earth-shattering revelation
- The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting – In 1879, young pastor Kai Schweigaard arrives in an isolated village in Norway determined to replace its 700-year-old stave church and its two bells, believed to have supernatural powers, with a more modern, larger church
- Clear by Carys Davies – In 1843, John Ferguson, an impoverished church minister, is sent to evict the sole occupant of a remote Scottish island so it can be turned over to the grazing of sheep
- The Monk by Tim Sullivan – The body of a monk is found savagely beaten to death in a woodland near Bristol
- The Road to Grantchester by James Runcie – A prequel to the series featuring Sidney Chambers, vicar of Grantchester and honorary canon of Ely Cathedral
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather – The story of two priests – Bishop Jean Marie Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant – who are sent to establish the Catholic Church in the newly acquired territory of New Mexico
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