convent

“The root of it is still quite traditional and patriarchal in that these powerful women have to be sequestered from men and are essentially living in a convent,” Williams says.

His character, who is a father of five daughters, comes across a girl who is locked away at a convent and the story continues from there.

Lawrence Bishnoi himself attended a convent school, riding his own bike by the eighth grade and wearing expensive shoes - luxuries unheard of for most.

Charlotte Woods' novel is about a middle-aged woman who retreats from the world to a convent in New South Wales.

Operation Breakthrough started 52 years ago in a convent on the east side of Kansas City, with two nuns watching four children so their parents could go to work.