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Lawyer's silent call to life in Norfolk monastery

As a lawyer she worked with abused children and abusive parrots. Then came the call to a new job. Rowan Mantell from the Norwich Evening News met Norfolk nun, Teresa Keswick.

A foul-beaked parrot decided one of her more memorable court cases, but it was a silent voice which changed her life forever.

Teresa Keswick was once a London lawyer. Today she owns nothing, watches no television, attends eight church services a day and might go months without leaving her Quidenham monastery, south of Norwich.

Read the rest of this story on EveningNews24

Pictured is Sister Teresa Keswick from the Carmelite Monastry in Quidenham with one of her embroideries she is currently working on. Picture by EveningNews24.

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