Na Corda Bamba

Forced by circumstances to seek refuge with her young daughter in the remote abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer, actress Juliette reinvents herself as Sister Auguste under the tutelage of a kind abbess. Gradually, Juliette adapts to such a great change: the colorful travels and constant discoveries of her life as an actress are followed by the new demands of a semi-secluded existence. But times are changing: the assassination of Henry IV becomes a catalyst for uprising in France, and the appointment of a new abbess, whose zeal for Reformation knows no bounds, quickly destroys everything Juliette had come to love in her new life. But the worst is yet to come... The new abbess, Isabelle, is an eleven-year-old child from a noble and corrupt family, and she comes accompanied by a ghost from Juliette's past: disguised as a clergyman, here is a man she has every reason to fear...
Treating a delicate theme with subtlety – religion as a subterfuge, as an escape maneuver in the face of the painful realities of existence – Joanne Harris constructs a story in her own way, touching and vivid, captivating from the first page.