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Kicking the Habit

From Convent to Casualty in 1960s Liverpool

Kicking the Habit

From Convent to Casualty in 1960s Liverpool

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Paperback / softback

£8.99

Publisher: SPCK Publishing
ISBN: 9780745956114
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 21/06/2013
Width: 13 cm
Height: 19.8 cm
If you liked Call the Midwife, you will love Kicking the Habit! What makes a fun-loving teenager turn her back on a life of parties, boys and fun, to become a nun in a French convent? And what later leads her to abandon the religious life, to return to the big wide world and later marry? At the age of 18, Eleanor Stewart goes to France to enter a convent. After four years of struggling with the religious life, she becomes a nun, and then trains as a midwife in a large inner-city hospital in Liverpool. While Beatlemania grips the nation, she attempts to coordinate the reclusive demands of the religious life with the drama, excitement and occasional tragedy of the hospital world. Written with honesty and affection, this is a wonderful and intimate portrait of convent and hospital life.
Contents Ack nowledgments 7 PART 1: Entry 9 1 A n Ordinary Girl 11 2 The Furies at the Door 18 3 A Very Big Decision 24 4 First Impressions 29 5 Black Pudding 35 6 A Real Beginning 38 7 Le arning the Ropes 42 8 Secrets and Mysteries 52 9 House Training 58 PART 2: Noviciate 71 10 "Taking the Veil" 73 11 A Novice’s Life for Me! 81 12 So Much to Learn, to Love, and to Understand 88 13 Music and a Pink Corset 96 14 Holiday Time 101 15 Crisis 111 16 Death and Sister Pauline 120 17 The Turkey Experience 126 18 A "Hustings" and the delights of Literature 132 19 A Sawdust Carpet and a private Epiphany 138 PART 3: Profession 149 20 St Julien’s School, Le Mans 151 21 W retchedness in romiley 158 22 A Happy house and a Change of Direction 164 23 Broadgreen, Val Doonican, and Other Oddities 170 24 Re newal of Vows and "Night Duty" 179 25 A New Broom and Family Worries 188 26 The Burns Unit and a Child Called David 197 27 Gh astly Gynae! 203 28 More Night-time Drama and that "Lovin’ Feeling" 209 29 Midwifery, Three-Year Vows and Uncertainty 218 30 The "Leaving of Liverpool" 229 Glossary 237

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