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      Letter to Sister Benedicta

      by Rose Tremain
      Published
      Mar 2009
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      Fat and fifty, educated only to be a wife and mother, Ruby Constad has reached a point of crisis. Her husband, Leon, lies in a nursing home after a stroke that has left him paralyzed; her grown-up children are gone. In her anguish Ruby appeals for help to a half-remembered figure from her colonial Indigenous girlhood — Sister Benedicta. Gradually the events leading up to Leon's stroke are revealed and a woman emerges whose capacity to love, hope and understand are far greater than she realizes.

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      First Edition Mar 2009 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099284079 ISBN10 0099284073
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      Jan 1978 Macdonald and Jane's ISBN13 9780354043533 ISBN10 0354043536
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      Apr 1979 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312482350 ISBN10 0312482353
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      Feb 2011 Vintage ISBN13 9781446450536 ISBN10 1446450538
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