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Sister Agnes is a contemporary nun, living in an open order, based in London. She has a tiny flat in Southwark, and she does whatever work the order thinks fit. For the first three novels she is working in a hostel for homeless young people in Southwark; for the fourth, she has been sent by the order to teach in their boarding school in Yorkshire, and the fifth (due to be published in 1998) finds her back in London working as a prison chaplain.
Agnes is half French (her mother was French, her father Anglo-American). At an early age she made a wealthy but unfortunate marriage to a violent man. When she fled from him, she became a nun. Her life still tends to be full of conflict as she struggles with the restraints of religious life. She has taken vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and yet she loves fast cars, designer clothes and good food. More than anything, obedience does not come easily to her.
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