They were a community of Carmelite nuns in the 1950s with no chapel and no funds to pay builders. And then their prioress came up with the solution: the sisters, fully clad in their long, brown, woollen habits, would build their church themselves (see picture). The story of what happened next, with the nuns wrestling with vast pieces of concrete on trestles and planks (they could not afford scaffolding) is told in a new book, Out of This World, by Pat Lyne, who was the lay extern for the commun