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A seventeenth-century nun has a lesbian affair with a novice.

Set in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, the changing church, and sexuality.

"Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Temperance Breman, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Elisabeth Nicolet, dead over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should lie in her grave. A strange, small coffin, buried in the recesses of a decaying church, holds the first clue to the cloistered nun's fate. The puzzle surrounding Sister Elisabeth's life and death...

A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, or, indeed, life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.