内容简介：
Fifteen-year-old Andrea Mackintosh is used to a sophisticated lifestyle, visiting the cultural capitals of Europe with her diplomat father. Then, in 1942, she is plunged into the austere world of a convent boarding school to which her father sends her in order to escape the Blitz. With the world in turmoil, this is one place that seems untouched by events. At first, Protestant Andrea feels like a stranger in an alien world - but soon her bewitching personality and academic prowess make her the envy of her classmates and favorite of the nuns. As Andrea becomes assimilated into convent life, she begins to enjoy the friendship of the other girls, notably the strong-willed Clare Bingley, and to appreciate the misadventures, petty feuds and numerous undercurrents, which reflect the uncertainty of the outside world...