Author speaks at book store
Local author Ms Colette Livermore will speak about her new book Hope Endures at Book Bazaar in Umina on Saturday, March 7.
Store owner Ms Mandi McIntosh said the book, published by Random House, recounts an "enormously compassionate and honest" story.
"Hope Endures recounts the horrors Colette saw and tried to remedy in her work with the sisters of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in some of the poorest places in the East," Ms McIntosh said.
"Ultimately, though, she cannot bear the rigid, often psychologically abusive, administrative culture of the order - and its insistence on unquestioning obedience that harms the young sisters mentally, emotionally, and spiritually while limiting the good they can do.
"This is a wonderful opportunity to hear an inspiring story of an incredible woman.
"Hope Endures is a critique that asks readers to question blind faith and obedience and discover their own true path to practising goodness in life."
The event will start from 10.30am at a cost of $10 per person.
For bookings or further information, contact enquiries@bookbazaar.biz or 4342 2482.
Press release, 12 Feb 2009
Mandi McIntosh, Book Bazaar