Profit of Her Fellowship

In 1971, Sister Martha Louise acts as headmistress at Our Lady of the Perpetual Covenant Academy, a down-on-its luck boarding school for girls, one of them seventeen-year-old Petranella Funk. In alternating accounts, the fiery nun and timid teenage girl recall that pivotal year, when Lila Rupert arrives at the school. Where Lila goes, chaos follows, and soon the orderly boredom of Covenant Academ...