With her beloved father's recent conversion to Catholicism, nine-year-old Fernanda is sent to study at the Convent of the Five Wounds. Passionately obedient yet irrepressibly clever, Nanda becomes equally seduced and repelled by the rituals, religious fervor, and cruelly repressive culture at the school. First published in 1933 and based on the author's own experience, Frost in May was selected in 1978 as the first Virago Modern Classic, an esteemed British imprint "dedicated to the celebration of women writers." You won't want to miss it!