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Title: HOLY SMOKE
By: Libby Purves
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0340721510
ISBN 13: 9780340721513
Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION
Pub. date: 22 October, 1998
Pages: 200
Description: In this memoir Libby Purves recalls her strange Catholic childhood in convents around the world with stories of white-robed nuns amid the gilded temples of Bangkok, rations of beer for nine-year-olds after High Mass in France and unease in South Africa at the height of apartheid.
Illustrations: 8pp Illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Returns: Non-returnable
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