Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life

A religious cliff-hanger--intimate compelling hard to put down.SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEEager to shake off the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing Patricia Hample seeks the old world of Catholicism. On her pilgrimage she meets others seekers--crotchety English agnostics American Franciscan friars and nuns and the seekers that fill every charter flight. Inevitably too she finds the old world right at home in the very past she had tried to escape. But what she is looking for confronts her finally on a rereat at a monastery near the Lost Coast of northern California in the still virgin moments of silent prayer....