Career
The book chronicles a year she spent in various convents while discerning whether to marry for a third time or to take up a vocation as an Anglican nun. Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario to an Anglican father and a Roman Catholic mother. Her father John Grimshaw was a reporter and editors
Her mother Valeria was also a reporter and editors
She was educated at Saint Clement"s School and Loretto Abbey, and graduated from Carleton University with a Bachelor of Arts (English and History). She had a long career as a newspaper editor and journalist, including for Canadian Press, The Globe and Mail, the Hamilton Spectator and the National Post, and later as a communications manager in the public sector, before devoting her time exclusively to writing.
In 2012, she moved to England. She has also published three books of travel writing, and co-wrote A Journey Just Begun (2015) for the Sisterhood of Saint John the Divine in Toronto.