I am grateful to say that Cloistered was generously reviewed in the Financial Times, Guardian, TLS, Telegraph, Times, Tablet, Spectator, New Statesman, Catholic Herald, Church Times, Mail on Sunday, and other outlets in the UK, and has been covered by the New York Review of Books, Publishers' Weekly, and Epoch Times, in the US, and in Aktuálně.cz in the Czech Republic. Below are a few representative links!
With thanks to organisers Stephanie Cross and Jack Parlett, here is a link to a fifteen minute talk I gave as part of their wonderful 5x15 podcast series. I start at 44 mins in and am in good company here:
https://youtu.be/O_dCmvMub2I?si=hYlGZow3F105joXE&t=2643
https://youtu.be/O_dCmvMub2I?si=hYlGZow3F105joXE&t=2643
And here is an interview I was honoured to have with the legend that is Terry Gross, on NPR's Fresh Air channel (I'd recommend listening rather than reading the partial transcript):
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1239633773
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1239633773
Saturday Live! A Radio 4 real-time studio recording with the dynamic and wonderful Nikki Bedi, plus fascinating guests Ruth Goodman and Steven Knight: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ypsh
On Radio 3's The Verb, with poet and presenter extraordinaire, Ian McMillan, and fellow guests Holly Pester, Karen Featherstone, and Hannah Sullivan:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001x414
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001x414
Write About Now podcast interview, with Jonathan Small:
https://writeaboutnowmedia.com/podcast/2024/4/9/a-former-nun-escapes-her-secretive-monastery
(Note: there's a an odd silence/ glitch at 39 mins in, but the conversation resumes after a bit)
https://writeaboutnowmedia.com/podcast/2024/4/9/a-former-nun-escapes-her-secretive-monastery
(Note: there's a an odd silence/ glitch at 39 mins in, but the conversation resumes after a bit)
Two very nice pieces in the Observer, thanks to the fabulous Kate Kellaway:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/25/cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun-catherine-coldstream-extract
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/25/catherine-coldstream-cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun-god-interview
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/25/cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun-catherine-coldstream-extract
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/25/catherine-coldstream-cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun-god-interview
Short piece in The New Statesman, by Pippa Bailey:
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/03/from-bridget-oconnor-to-grace-blakeley-new-books-reviewed-in-short
Fergus Butler-Gallie writes engagingly in the Spectator World: https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/incisive-memoir-life-cloisters-cloistered-catherine-coldstream/
The TLS: Guy Stagg's review can be read here:
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/cloistered-catherine-coldstream-book-review-guy-stagg/
The Church Times: an insightful review by Lavinia Byrne:
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/8-march/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun-by-catherine-coldstream
A probing long-form interview with Sarah Meyrick in the Easter issue of the Church Times:
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/28-march/features/features/convent-was-run-like-a-cult
(Czech language) interview with Klára Elšíková, November 2024: https://magazin.aktualne.cz/dvanact-let-neopustila-zdi-klastera-ted-napsala-autobiografi/r~9e41d01896e111ef801c0cc47ab5f122/
Thanks to Sally Bayley for this interesting write-up in the Catholic Herald:
https://catholicherald.co.uk/review-cloistered-by-catherine-coldstream/
I am also grateful to Ysenda Maxtone Graham for her excellent review in the Mail on Sunday, and it is only the fact that it had such a crass headline imposed by the paper's editors that means I won't be linking to it here.
Publishers' Weekly, US review: www.publishersweekly.com/9781250323514?fbclid=IwY2xjawIp1IxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbqgKLakTiIebHmaMZbpEG5RgVNfaNoi11v1EdyT6m9UKGoYW348ucPQkw_aem_JKg2KjpPIwpJpkVAToUgPA
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/03/from-bridget-oconnor-to-grace-blakeley-new-books-reviewed-in-short
Fergus Butler-Gallie writes engagingly in the Spectator World: https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/incisive-memoir-life-cloisters-cloistered-catherine-coldstream/
The TLS: Guy Stagg's review can be read here:
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/cloistered-catherine-coldstream-book-review-guy-stagg/
The Church Times: an insightful review by Lavinia Byrne:
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/8-march/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun-by-catherine-coldstream
A probing long-form interview with Sarah Meyrick in the Easter issue of the Church Times:
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/28-march/features/features/convent-was-run-like-a-cult
(Czech language) interview with Klára Elšíková, November 2024: https://magazin.aktualne.cz/dvanact-let-neopustila-zdi-klastera-ted-napsala-autobiografi/r~9e41d01896e111ef801c0cc47ab5f122/
Thanks to Sally Bayley for this interesting write-up in the Catholic Herald:
https://catholicherald.co.uk/review-cloistered-by-catherine-coldstream/
I am also grateful to Ysenda Maxtone Graham for her excellent review in the Mail on Sunday, and it is only the fact that it had such a crass headline imposed by the paper's editors that means I won't be linking to it here.
Publishers' Weekly, US review: www.publishersweekly.com/9781250323514?fbclid=IwY2xjawIp1IxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbqgKLakTiIebHmaMZbpEG5RgVNfaNoi11v1EdyT6m9UKGoYW348ucPQkw_aem_JKg2KjpPIwpJpkVAToUgPA
Review in The Tablet by Fr Luke Bell OSB, of Quarr Abbey
Catholic Herald feature, 2024
Lightweight Catholic Herald feature, 'On Pilgrimage With' ...
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BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week: adaptation of Cloistered by Jill Waters of The Waters Company:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m001xvg3
Free Thinking, discussion on the theme of Isolation:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0kzm2w1