Cover of The mermaid chair ; Sue Monk Kidd

Book 2006

The mermaid chair ; Sue Monk Kidd

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Publisher
Penguin
Language
English
Published
2006
  • Catholic women
  • Married women
  • Spiritual life
  • Benedictines
  • Islands
  • Monks
  • Fiction
  • Religious fiction

It's about a woman named Jessie Sullivan who has to return to her former home Egret island to take care of her mother.
Within a monastery resides a chair carved with mermaids that supposedly was dedicated to a mermaid.Jessie meet a monk and falls
for him although she is already married.....