About “How the Light Gets In”

“There is a crack in everything – that’s how the light gets in.”

After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Molly Fowler flees her past life for the only safe place she knows – Saint Gabriel Abbey, home of the Benedictine monks who once sheltered her mother.  Reckless, self-destructive, with a knack for causing trouble, Molly is an unlikely monastery guest.  She quickly makes an enemy of the ambitious Father John, who makes it a project to save her soul.  Befriended by the monks who knew her mother, Molly learns some unsettling truths about her parents’ dark history  . . . while finding herself drawn into a deep and unsettling intimacy with Brother Magnus, the monastery librarian.  But when her past, and her mother’s, finally catch up with her, Molly’s struggle to discover who she is – and who she might become – are violently threatened.  This is a story of redemption, and one lost girl’s winding and complex journey out of the darkness and into the light.