Through the Narrow Gate

<p>Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong’s memoir of life inside a Catholic convent in the 1960’s.</p> <p>With gentleness and honesty Armstrong takes her readers on a revelatory journey that begins with her decision at the age of seventeen to devote her life to God as a nun. yet once she embarked upon her spiritual training she encountered a frightening and oppressive world fossilized by tradition which moulded isolated and pushed her to the limit of what she could endure.</p>