Mary McGreevy

Sister Mary Thomas is certainly a free-thinking nun. But when she returns to her life as Mary McGreevy, there seems no end to her scandals.Written with Walter Keady's characteristic charm and graceful humor, Mary McGreevy is the story of a young nun who abandons her convent -- and every vow she's ever made public -- for the sweetness of real life in Kildawree, the Irish village where her heart was twice broken. In 1950, leaving the convent is scandalous enough, but the village is still reeling from that first rebellion when Mary presents them with her next. The mysteries of faith fold into the more direct question of paternity when Mary chooses to have a child out of wedlock and not to name the father.Mary McGreevy is a delightful page-turner, full of humor and insight and the sweet rewards of an irrepressibly human spirit.