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Day was born in Sydney, and grew up in Pagewood, an industrial suburb.
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Lambs of God
(Carla, Margarita, and Iphigenia are three nuns living in ...)
Carla, Margarita, and Iphigenia are three nuns living in a crumbling monastery on a remote island, forgotten by time, the world, and the church. Their liturgical calendar is governed by the changing of the seasons, and by the rising and setting of the sun. Their days are spent performing a ritual of prayer and storytelling, as they knit the wool of the sheep who inhabit the monastery grounds and into whose bodies they believe their deceased sisters' souls to have entered. Then, one day, seemingly out of nowhere, a priest appears. Hoping to rise in the church hierarchy, he has presented plans to his bishop to convert what he believes is an uninhabited and valuable piece of church property into a spa for the wealthy-and he has come to investigate the land. Father Ignatius is as surprised to see the nuns as they are to see a flesh-and-blood man, and what follows is the strange, moving, and often hilarious story of their struggle-a struggle of wills, but also of faith. Lambs of God is a beautifully written and haunting story of colliding traditions, conflicting beliefs, and magical trans-formations. It weaves together Christian belief, classical mythology, fairy tales, Celtic lore, and the mysteries of the natural world into one of the most memorable and gripping of contemporary novels. Like Ron Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy, Lambs of God is a wildly original investigation into the nature and complexities of faith.
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Marele Day
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She attended Sydney Girls High School and Sydney Teachers" College and in 1973 obtained a degree from Sydney University.
Career
She has worked as a patent searcher and as a researcher and has also taught in elementary school during the 1980s. Her Claudia Valentine series features a feminist Sydney-based private investigator but her breakthrough novel was Lambs of God which was a departure from the crime genre and features two nuns battling to save the island on which they live from developers. lieutenant became a bestseller.
She lives on the New South Wales North coast.
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Lambs of God
(Carla, Margarita, and Iphigenia are three nuns living in ...)
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Shamus Award
The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America (Public Works Administration) for the best detective fiction genre novels and short stories of the year.The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America (Public Works Administration) for the best detective fiction genre novels and short stories of the year.