Agnes Of God

Description for AGNES OF GOD by Lenore Fleischerwith introduction by Norman Jewison1985:

NUN INDICTED FOR MANSLAUGHTER

The headlines made it seem so simple. A nun. A dead baby. An arrest. And now, if the court-appointed psychiatrist found her sane, a long, sensational trial.

But Dr. Martha Livingston knew it was more complicated than that. How did you judge a twenty-one-year-old girl who wasn't sure where babies came from? Who didn't even remember having one...or what had happened to him?

Especially when a strong-willed Mother Superior is battling you every step of the way---and your own searing memories of a similar tragedy threaten to make you lose whatever objectivity you still possess...