Frost in May

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Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient, and eager to please, she adapts to this cloistered world, learning rigid conformity and subjection to authority. Passionate friendships are the only deviation from her total obedience. Convent life is perfectly captured by Antonia White.

subjects: Young women,  Girls' schools,  Catholic schools,  Fiction,  Fiction, general,  Fiction in English,  Lesbian youth,  Sexuality,  Catholic schools in literature