to the paradise garden
anne margot boyd
The lure of a Paradise Garden gleams like a mystic thread through Anne’s remarkable story of adaptation to the social upheaval of the 1960s. As Sister Mary Anne in a 300-year-old contemplative nunnery in the UK, she wrote home to Australia from 1956 to 1970. These letters, rescued from a house fire in the 1990s, form the heart of this captivating memoir.
“Your style of writing is so free-flowing. It’s like listening to a story being told, and unfolding in front of you. It’s easy reading, and yet very informative and educational. It is thought-provoking, when you consider the changes affecting women through the ages. I’m sure all who read it will be rewarded.”
About the
author
Anne Margot Boyd is an Australian author and editor, who in 1955 joined the Dominican contemplative community at Carisbrooke on the Isle of Wight in England. She was one of the founders of Carisbrooke Priory Press, and subsequently worked for many years in the publishing division of Cambridge University Press and Cassell Publishers. After returning to Australia, Anne was founding editor of Ferntree Gully News, and she continues to write and edit.
