𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐞

Author: Libby Purves, 200 pages, hardcover.
In this memoir Libby Purves recalls her strange Catholic childhood in convents around the world with stories of white-robed nuns amid the gilded temples of Bangkok, rations of beer for nine-year-olds after High Mass in France and unease in South Africa at the height of apartheid.