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To belong means everything to Ellie Dardis. Growing up in Ireland with her two brothers her attachment to them and to the land becomes all embracing. Cosseted by her family from the events of the outside world she is unprepared for the complexities of life.Ellie is susceptible to high ideals and the apparent nobility and sacrifice of religious life which eventually beckons to her. She joins the order of St. Mary of the Wayside. Following her religious studies she is sent to America to train as a teacher. Here, her eyes are opened to new ideas and to the American values of individualism and independence. Gradually Ellie begins to fear that she is losing sight of her commitment to life within the convent.Years of inner torment alternating with periods of reaffirmation follow. Ellie 's anger and bitter disappoint ment with the Order reaches crisis point when following the death of her father, she arrives home too late for his funeral. I could have been in time, she says, but they wouldn t let me. This is a remarkable, warm and witty book A Place in the Choir is one girl 's journey from an early life of freedom into the ascetic, rarefied and often contradictory confines of a convent.
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