Obedience

Jacqueline Yallop

Original title: OBeDIeNCe

earliest edition we have, 2011 Windsor, 2012 270 pages

Obedience is set in a convent in rural France where Yallop’s elderly anti-heroine, Sister Bernard, took vows of chastity, obedience and poverty as a young woman, and eventually violated them all. Sister Bernard is a simpleton: a peasant sprung from the land on which she would have worked, had it not been for the insistent voice of God in her head. She is regarded by her fellow nuns as exasperatingly stupid, but as t...

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Obedience audiobook · 2021 · Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781665161442
Obedience edition · 2012 · Atlantic · 9780857891037
Obedience edition · 2012 · Windsor · 270 pages · 9781445859569
OBeDIeNCe edition · 2012 · Penguin Books · 277 pages · 9780143120674
Obedience edition · 2011 · Atlantic Books · 276 pages · 9780857891013
Obedience edition · 2011 · Atlantic Books, Limited · 240 pages · 9780857895752

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