Catherine Coldstream spent 12 years as a nun in a traditional Carmelite monastery in Northumberland, England.
The Akenside Priory, as she writes in her new memoir, “Cloistered,” was contemplative, which meant that conversation was discouraged except for half an hour each day.
“Unlike the rest of the day when words were held back, or weighed extremely carefully, at recreation time we sat in a circle and made efforts to converse,” she writes.
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