Thanks to the Catholic Herald and Sally Bayley for this interesting write-up:
https://catholicherald.co.uk/review-cloistered-by-catherine-coldstream/
Adventures in Cardiff for Saturday Live, and a real-time studio recording in April with the dynamic and wonderful Nikki Bedi, plus fascinating guests Ruth Goodman and Steven Knight: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ypsh
https://catholicherald.co.uk/review-cloistered-by-catherine-coldstream/
Adventures in Cardiff for Saturday Live, and a real-time studio recording in April with the dynamic and wonderful Nikki Bedi, plus fascinating guests Ruth Goodman and Steven Knight: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ypsh
Earlier in the spring a skilful adaptation of Cloistered was broadcast as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. Many thanks to the genius of producer Jill Waters for this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m001xvg3
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m001xvg3
With thanks to organisers Stephanie Cross and Jack Parlett, here is a link to a fifteen minute talk I gave this week as part of their wonderful 5x15 podcast series. I'm in good company here! Now up on YouTube. I am the fourth of five speakers and my bit starts (as set below) at 44 minutes in:
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 last week (I'd recommend listening rather than reading the partial transcript). It was an exciting and enriching experience, and a taste of the USA:
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1239633773
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1239633773
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
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
And the very perceptive 9th March review in The Tablet, by Luke Bell OSB, of Quarr Abbey. Expand to read, or view free on the Tablet website:
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/books/10/24113/chiaroscuro
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/books/10/24113/chiaroscuro
In other news:
Alice O' Keeffe writes interestingly on Cloistered for The Times:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cloistered-by-catherine-coldstream-review-kkkwmcdh2
Lamorna Ash's bittersweet review of 27th February is here:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/l/la-le/lamorna-ash/
The TLS: Guy Stagg's review (quite nice, in spite of a questionable headline!) can be read here:
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/cloistered-catherine-coldstream-book-review-guy-stagg/
The Financial Times: Catherine Taylor writes beautifully and sympathetically here:
https://www.ft.com/content/3364f18b-3610-4229-a7ec-7ddf1d0efda2
The Church Times: an insightful review by Lavinia Byrne, 8th March 2024:
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/8-march/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun-by-catherine-coldstream
Alice O' Keeffe writes interestingly on Cloistered for The Times:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cloistered-by-catherine-coldstream-review-kkkwmcdh2
Lamorna Ash's bittersweet review of 27th February is here:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/l/la-le/lamorna-ash/
The TLS: Guy Stagg's review (quite nice, in spite of a questionable headline!) can be read here:
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/cloistered-catherine-coldstream-book-review-guy-stagg/
The Financial Times: Catherine Taylor writes beautifully and sympathetically here:
https://www.ft.com/content/3364f18b-3610-4229-a7ec-7ddf1d0efda2
The Church Times: an insightful review by Lavinia Byrne, 8th March 2024:
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/8-march/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun-by-catherine-coldstream
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 edition: https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/incisive-memoir-life-cloisters-cloistered-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
I am also grateful to Ysenda Maxtone Graham for her excellent review in the Mail on Sunday, a couple of weeks ago, and it is only the fact that it had such a crass and inappropriate headline imposed by the paper's editors that means I won't be linking to it here.
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 edition: https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/incisive-memoir-life-cloisters-cloistered-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
I am also grateful to Ysenda Maxtone Graham for her excellent review in the Mail on Sunday, a couple of weeks ago, and it is only the fact that it had such a crass and inappropriate headline imposed by the paper's editors that means I won't be linking to it here.