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For fans of TV shows like 'Call the Midwife';
This 60s-set autobiography mixes faith and hospital drama
These stories will make you laugh, cry, and want to know more
Anna Hockley
Christian Books Specialist
If you loved the TV series ‘Call the Midwife’, this real life account of a young woman’s journey from convent to casualty is just for you. Kicking the Habit is the story of Eleanor Stewart's transition from carefree young woman of the Beatles generation through to a reclusive life in a French convent and on to serving as an inner city midwife.
Beginning among the parties and nightclubs of the swinging sixties, Eleanor’s story is one of drama, excitement, exhilaration and tragedy as she first gives up everything for the life of a nun, and then sacrifices the peace and tranquillity of the religious life for the business of bringing new life into the world she’s denied, but must now re-enter.
Written with honesty and affection, this is an intimate portrait of convent and hospital life that will appeal to readers of biography, social history and the details often missing from fiction set in the rapidly changing social and spiritual world of the 1960s.
At the age of 18, Eleanor 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 is trying to coordinate the demands of the religious life with the drama, excitement and occasional tragedy of the hospital world.
Written with honesty and affection, this is an intimate portrait of convent and hospital life.
If you laughed at 'Sister Act' and enjoyed 'Call the Midwife', you will love 'Kicking the Habit'.
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Eleanor Stewart
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Lion Hudson
Published
June 2013
Edition
1st New edition
Weight
246g
Page Count
240
Dimensions
12.7 x 19.6 x 2.1 cm
ISBN
9780745956114
ISBN-10
0745956114
Eden Code
4066772
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