- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (4 May 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 009928202X
- ISBN-13: 978-0099282020
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,858,228 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A debut novel set in Liverpool at the time of the Toxteth riots, narrated by Sister Maureen, a nun from a working-class background who loves football. The Archdeacon sends Maureen to university to study art history, and the new Mother Superior demands work-stations, interpersonal skills and line management.
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Format:Hardcover
My mother was always pushing me towards a book she liked a lot, called 'I Jumped Over The Wall' by, I believe, Monica Baldwin. I resisted that book for years but when I did get round to it found the story of a nun leaving the convent quite magical. I was reminded of this book when a friend handed me a copy of "Life Class" and did not let too much time pass before settling down to it. I read it at a sitting and was greatly entertained and moved throughout. In many ways I was reminded of Muriel Spark's "The Abbess of Crewe", especially in the division of the nuns between 'workers' and 'choir'. Class in Liverpool convents is, it seems, a potent division. Sister Maureen, the heroine, is content as a worker bee in the convent. She identifies strongly with all the other worker nuns over the years who have laboured without reward or status in the convent for the greater glory of God. But then she is instructed to take up a place at Liverpool University, in order to cross over to the status of choir nun. History of Art is her subject and it becomes her undoing - or her redemption. Told with the background of a depressed once-great city; the Liverpool riots; a Church in the midst of change and trauma, Life Class is, as its cunning title suggests, just that. The best novel I've read for quite some time.
Format:Paperback
What a strange book. I enjoyed it well enough but didn't find it 'brilliantly funny' (as claimed on the cover) at all. In fact, if found it really quite dark and disturbing. I suppose you could either read it as a popcorn, 'entertainment' book in which case it scored half marks or you could look at the larger issues raised by the author. But these seem so confused and unfinished that I'm not sure it makes the mark. An interesting read, certainly, with some engaging characters.
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