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Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy
Rumer Godden
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Paperback, 355 pages; 2007 (1979)
$7.90
It was a wild night: the liberation of Paris in August 1944. A fresh-as-daisy girl serving in the British Army is given the evening off and loses her way in the general madness of the celebration. She ends up being rescued by a kind man—who owns a house of prostitution. So begins Elizabeth Fanshawe's downward spiral into Lise, the prostitute, and then La Balafrée, the notorious prisoner, until she eventually becomes Soeur Marie Lise du Rosaire, a nun ministering to prisoners. In e for Sorrow, Ten for Joy, Rumer Godden writes about slippery slopes, about discerning between what is true and what is false, about disgrace and redemption.
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