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The Price of Devotion

A Memoir

Anthea Church

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English
Shakspeare Editorial
27 April 2026
Series: Memoir
The seduction of certainty. The beauty of India. A prescription for life. At the age of twenty-one, the writer encounters an Indian belief system. So begins a journey that lasts for twenty years, during which family relationships are fractured, sex is banned, reading is restricted, television and theatre are discouraged, and a vegetarian diet is compulsory. The Price of Devotion describes a spiritual life lived in technicolour intensity.
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Imprint:   Shakspeare Editorial
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 19mm, 
ISBN:   9781919204628
ISBN 10:   1919204628
Series:   Memoir
Pages:   262
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for The Price of Devotion: A Memoir

'If A Child of the Air, the author's memoir of her early life, was a fluid, lucid dream, walking through an England which is now long-lost, this second volume picks up the pace and pushes into darker waters. Anthea writes vividly about life as an English teacher, juxtaposing the demands of her profession with the rigours of her devotion to a spiritual regime. As one of her former students, to whom she taught the beauty of Keats's poetry, The Price of Devotion gave me a fascinating insight into why Anthea taught with the understated power that she did.' Jonathan Morley, former student 'An existential plea is met with a blinding light which draws the author into a religious experience that offers as much as it demands. Here, we have all the highs and lows of life without sex, drugs or rock and roll. The Price of Devotion is a winning combination of the harrowing and the uplifting, with its most evocative passages set in a mountaintop retreat in Rajasthan.' Mark Hooper, classical musician/pianist and former member of the Brahma Kumaris


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