The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong

The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

Karen Armstrong

306 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction memoir religion informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
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In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to pursue English literature at Oxford. But convent life had profoundly altered her, and coping with t...

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