The book I was researching was written in the 1870,s and details the experiences of a young nun who eventually left the sisterhood. I dont normally read the books I sell, but this one is amazing. Basically nothing has changed in the last 150 years in the Catholic Church.

The young nun attracted the attention of a new priest. She declined his advances until he eventually drugged her with the intention of raping her. She managed to drag herself to a common area and was whisked away for a few days. When she reported the attempted rape to a senior priest he told her it wasnt the young priests fault, he hadnt sinned and she should keep quiet about the whole thing. She was chastised for making a fuss and then sent straight back to the same convent where the attack occured.

If she refused to go, the other alternative was imprisonment in the mental assylum for nuns, run by the church. After further attention from the offending priest, she made a daring escape. Destitute and friendless, she placed an advert in a local paper seeking work as a house maid. A wealthy woman came to her motel and offered her work as a companion and house keeper. Once at the wealthy womans house she was locked in a room and offered up to a gentleman as a prostitute. Her first client just happened to be a priest.

Again she escaped ( with virtue intact ) and contacted her sister who made arrangements for the police to arrest the date rape, drug offending young priest who by this time had been promoted to a higher position within the church. The media got wind of the story and started to report on it. The church again urged the nun to silence in order to protect the reputation of the Catholic Church, eventually offering her money to buy her silence and arranging to send the offending priest to another area where no-one knew him.

The book was written in 1871 but does it all sound familiar ???