"Just awful. Incredibly dated, plodding, full of unbelievable plot elements, and with basically no compassion shown for the murder victim, who is depicted as almost deserving it because of her multiple partners and manipulativeness. Ugh. I try to give slightly more leeway for 60-year-old books' gender dynamics, but some books age exceptionally poorly, and this seems to be one of those."

"Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ strikes again with their incorrect information. Here's the blub for the CORRECT author:

Colleen Brown is known primarily as a sculptor. If you lie down in a field, she will find you there is her first book. Colleen created visual artworks related to the book when she was the Artist in Residence at the Ranger Station Gallery. She holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver and an MFA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. She has participated in recent exhibitions and events at Western Gallery, Bellingham; Shelfed, Vancouver; Hedreen Gallery, Seattle; Airbnb, Seattle; and The Apartment, Vancouver. Brown is the recipient of a 2016 Portfolio Prize. She lives in Vancouver, BC."

"As a book, this is a lively, good read. Very well written and easy to read. Also hip.

Also not about nuns. I mean, I am always looking for books about nuns, especially contemporary ones. These young women running a home for recovering addicts are like no nuns I know. They're meek and quiet and kinda lost, not getting any formation from an order, say rote prayers (lots of rosary) and kinda do their jobs. They don't seem very resourceful. They don't seem very competent (the ads for the Bible study on car windshields). They have a lot of spending money for women with no income (the main character, Agatha, is assigned a teaching job, and her whole salary is signed over to the diocese). They are powerless, also something I don't associate with the nuns I know, who are powerful, assertive, also contemplative, strong women who flourish in community. These women aren't flourishing. They seem to be biding their time until they figure out what to do next, or wait to be sent somewhere else. It could be any group of young women, out of high school or out of college, who live together to save money and try to figure out their lives, encountering eccentric and down-on-their-luck neighborhood characters along the way. "