Description:

Set in the safe and detached world of a religious retreat, "Triduum at the Novitiate" explores those inner, and sometimes disturbing emotions we all harbour. The carefully tended gardens of the novitiate, serene in the sunshine, are the scene of an apparently random, brutal sexual attack on one of the Brotherhood. The sanctuary is violated, its sanctity destroyed, and the Brother is left traumatised. Why has this happened? Who is to blame? Can the highly charged spiritual world of the novitiate come to terms with this horrifying physical assault on one of its members? The book is a beautifully written account of the world inside such retreats, with its total reliance on ritual and religion, but the book also exposes those deep and dark underlying currents of sexual desire and abuse.