Dearest Sister Wendy . . . A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship

Sister Wendy Beckett, a contemplative nun and art historian, enjoyed a period of unlikely fame when she was discovered by the BBC and given her own television series. When that period of public Life ended she happily returned to her hermitage and the life of seclusion to which she was committed by vocation and suited by temperament. Always, she resisted invitations to discuss her inner life. But that changed in her last years, as she entered into a deep, intimate, and almost daily correspondence with Robert Ellsberg, an American publisher and writer. Initially their email exchange centered on saints and holiness, but over time this expanded to the whole of their lives, the meaning of love, suffering, and joy, and the presence of grace in everyday life. Book jacket.