Michele Roberts — Impossible Saints

Little, Brown and Company 1997 Paperback, 320pp. What does it take for a woman to be judged saintly? In this wily, wonderfully original novel, Michèle Roberts tells the story of the fictional Saint Josephine: her life and death, her childhood and evolution from woman to nun to abbess, her unlikely canonization. The more we discover, the more incredible her sainthood seems. Who was Saint Josephine? Craven nun or fearless miracle worker? Pious role model or seductress? Uncorrected Proof. (ISBN: 9780316639576). Good.