Published by Pauline Grogan. This First Edition published 1996. Fade marks to cover, foxing to page edges and endpapers, otherwise good secondhand condition.

At the age of seventeen, Pauline Grogan enters the convent and seven years later takes her final vows. At age 29, desecrated and bewildered, she finds herself back within the secular world, having to begin her life all over again.
BEYOND THE VEIL is the sometimes shocking account of how faith survives even its own worst abuse, but it is much more than that. It is the story of a nun who becomes a wife and mother and then, as happiness seems secure, is cast back down into the deepest regions of despair.