Unveiled: nuns talking

Ten nuns speak openly about themselves. From varying backgrounds and orders, they all have different stories to tell, often moving and bizarre and sometimes shocking. While some of them live lives of strict enclosure, others have jobs, including AIDS counsellor, journalist, silversmith and doctor. True stories of ten contemporary nuns, in their own words, based on two years' of interviews conducted by the author, Mary Loudon, who is an agnostic. Moving, bizarre, uninhibited, sympathetic and sometimes shocking, Unveiled gives unique and unparalleled access to an increasingly unusual and often mis-perceived group of women. A bestseller in the UK and Australia, Unveiled has received rave reviews all over the world, and launched the author, Mary Loudon, when she was still only 24.