This was not a typical Tablet audience. Many had probably never thought about nuns

“You led us into a life of which we had no conception,” emailed one atheist publisher after The Tablet’s recent event. As Brendan Walsh said, introducing an evening’s discussion on the religious life, this was not a typical Tablet audience: some looked as if they might have been plucked “from the winners’ enclosure at Cheltenham”; many had probably never thought much about nuns, and, if forced to, might have reached for wary adjectives: “dour”, “dowdy”, “forbidding”.

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