A Rocking-Horse Catholic

Published shortly after Caryll Houselander's death, "A Rocking-Horse Catholic" is a charming, at times disarming, exercise in autobiography. With humility and humor, Houselander describes her childhood and its earliest influences on her imagination, intellect, and awareness of God; her adolescent absence from the Church; the spiritual and material poverty of her early adulthood; and her eventual return to the faith through profound experiences of the Mystical Body of Christ.