The best-selling book about a group of nuns who decide to join the French Resistance to combat the Nazis who have invaded their provincial town. Full of laugh-out-loud moments and fast-paced for modern readers.
“The inclination of most writers would be to do a ‘nuns with guns’ story, because it’s always easier to be shocking than charming. For accessibility, it was important to keep the story as light as possible, while illuminating what was a very dark moment in history. Achieving that balance was the greatest challenge in writing A Habit of Resistance. Chaplin certainly set the standard with his film, ‘The Great Dictator,’ and that influenced me greatly. I think humor instructs more than brow-beating.”
“The characters and situations are fictitious, but based on actual history. It has been largely forgotten that the clergy were, in fact, a critical part of the resistance movement in Europe. It is a travesty that people like Father Marie Benoit, Irena Sendler, and Father Alexander Glasberg, are now largely forgotten. I felt that if I made the story as interesting and entertaining as possible, perhaps I could remind people of some of the things that they had fought for.”
