Nun Literature
Nun lit is a genre of its own: novels, memoirs and histories set behind convent walls. Start with Rumer Godden's Black Narcissus, Lauren Groff's Matrix or Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024. For memoir, try Catherine Coldstream's Cloistered. For history, try Fiona Maddocks's Hildegard of Bingen or Hetta Howes's Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife.
