Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy: A Novel

Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy: A Novel

From a New York Timesâ€“bestselling author: A novel of a womanâ€™s journey from prostitute to brothel madam to murderess to nun in postâ€“World War II France.
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A sense of adventure and an eagerness to savor life to the fullest impel young, orphaned Elizabeth Fanshawe to escape her cold, unloving home and enlist in the British Army as a driver in 1944. Dispatched to Paris at the close of the Alliesâ€™ war against the hated Nazis, she soon finds herself swept up in the intoxicating celebratory glee of the newly liberated French. But after she meets the charming, seductive Patrice Ambard, Elizabethâ€™s life takes a sharp turn down a very dark road.
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Her love for the dashing, hypnotic Frenchman draws Elizabeth, now called Lise, into Patriceâ€™s world of crime and high-class prostitution, where she is broken, hardened, and then transformed into the whore-turned-notorious-madam known as La BalafrÃ©e, or the Scarred One. Still, her great fall will not be complete until circumstances drive her to commit a shocking murderâ€”and imprisonment ultimately sets her free.
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A haunting tale of disgrace, degradation, and glorious redemption told in flashbacks from the convent of Belle Source, where Soeur Marie Lise of the Sisters of Bethany remembers her years of sin and her eventual salvation, Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy is moving and powerful fiction from one of the most admired British novelists of the twentieth century. Rumer Godden, author of Black Narcissus and In This House of Brede, has crafted a truly transformative tale about faith, forgiveness, and the mercy of a loving God.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from the Rumer Godden Literary Estate.
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Country USA
Manufacturer Open Road Media
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-12-13
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Open Road Media
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-12-13
Format	Kindle eBook

Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy: A Novel

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