Divinity class at Sunday lunch – a marriage of opposites

One nun used to put a statue of St Patrick under the goalpost so we’d always win our netball matches.

Michèle Roberts’ mother and father in their 1942 engagement photo.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF MICHÈLE ROBERTS

A prizewinning novelist reflects on how the mealtime clashes between her French Catholic mother and her easygoing Anglican father helped shape her own spiritual outlook.

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