Author

Publication

2012 - Harvill Secker, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

69,500 words, Guess

Page Count

278 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveserver0000park
  • ISBN-101846555779
  • ISBN-101846555787
  • ISBN-139781846555770
  • ISBN-139781846555787
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number773430595
  • Better World Books9781846555787
  • Better World Books9781846555770
  • Open LibraryOL28422159M

Classifications

  • DDC823.92
  • LCCPR6066.A6957 S47 2012
  • LCCPR6066.A6957

Description

Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute. So what is the sparkling, magnetically attractive Beth Marriot doing here? Why is a young woman whose irrepressible vitality and confident ego were once set on conquest and stardom, now spending month after month serving in the vegetarian kitchen of a bizarrely severe Buddhist retreat? Beth is fighting demons: a catastrophic series of events has undermined all prospect of happiness. Trauma leaves her no alternative but to bury herself in the austere asceticism of a community that wakes at 4 am, doesn't permit eye contact, let alone speech, and keeps men and women strictly segregated. Conflicted and wayward, Beth stumbles on a diary and cannot keep away from it, or the man who wrote it. And the more she yearns for the purity of the retreat's silent priestess, the more she desires the priestess herself.

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