Felice

By Angela Davis-Gardner

In a remote convent school in Nova Scotia, an aging nun has a miraculous vision; a mute, injured man washes up on the nearby shore; and a group of girls is busily creating a reckless drama of excitements real and imagined. Here, amid the vows and rituals of Lent, a young girl named Felice has been sent after the death of her parents, poised somewhere between childhood, womanhood, and sainthood. A tragic death, a shocking revelation, and a baffling disappearance will set Felice on a staggering passage to self-discovery—armed with miracles that are uniquely her own.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Oct 30, 2007
• ISBN: 9780440337263

Reviews for Felice

[judithrs · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Felice. Angela Davis-Gardner. 1982. I really enjoyed the author’s Plum Wine, and expected to like this novel, after all it was set in a Catholic school/convent in Nova Scotia! It moved a little slow for me. We move in between Felice’s imagination and her reality as she grows from a child into a young adult. She is torn between the religious life and life outside the convent. The writing is beautiful, and I loved the descriptions of convent life and life in Scotia in the early 20th century, but did not find this book as satisfying I’d hoped.